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Severance council weighs where and how healing centers can operate under Colorado''s Natural Medicine law
Summary
At a July 8 work session, town attorneys and staff recommended zoning healing centers like medical offices and limiting cultivation/manufacturing to development nodes; council signaled support for corridor-based zoning and conservative hours while asking staff to research taxation, insurance and map options.
Severance officials spent the July 8 work session walking through how to implement Colorado''s Natural Medicine Act after voters legalized licensed use of psilocybin and psilocin. Town legal counsel said municipalities must permit licensed natural-medicine businesses but can regulate their time, place and manner.
Betsy (town attorney/consultant) told council the town cannot ban licensed facilitators or businesses that cultivate, manufacture, test or distribute regulated natural medicine, and cautioned that local rules cannot conflict with the Natural Medicine Act or Natural Medicine Code. She recommended separating healing centers, which she said are analogous to medical or therapist offices, from cultivation and…
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