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Local advocates and officials discuss medical cannabis rules, planning commission to meet May 22
Summary
Advocates described years of work to legalize medical cannabis access for patients; county officials said state licensing allows operations unless the county takes action, and announced a May 22 planning commission meeting to begin local zoning rules. Commissioners signaled they are unlikely to pursue an outright ban and will consider fees and reasonable local restrictions.
Michelle Crawford, an advocate whose family has lobbied for medical cannabis access for more than a decade, told the Mason County Fiscal Court that state legislation and a governor's executive order have created a regulated pathway for patients to obtain tested medical cannabis products.
Crawford said the licenses were posted on the governor's cannabis website and warned that patients now must often travel outside the county to access tested, legal medicine. "We are hoping that Mason County would be friendly to medical cannabis businesses, so that we don't have to drive very far to get a safe, tested, legal product," she said.
Judge Owen McNeil and other commissioners summarized…
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