Even if Floridians approve a state amendment legalizing recreational marijuana, Palm Beach will remain dispensary free after the Planning and Zoning Commission voted in favor of a zoning code amendment that will keep those businesses off the island.
The proposed ordinance streamlines the town’s law prohibiting medical marijuana establishments and cultivation into a blanket ban on marijuana cultivation and dispensaries, town attorney Joanne O’Connor told the commission during its Oct. 1 meeting.
Concerned over the potential passing of Amendment 3 , which would legalize the recreational sale and use of marijuana, the Town Council had asked O’Connor during its Sept. 11 meeting to review the current marijuana ordinances to ensure that Palm Beach continues to bar the sale of marijuana.
“There’s a lot of people who say that recreational marijuana is going to pass, so if it does, all I asked Joanne to do is look at whether we could add to this ordinance legal recreational and medical,” Council President Bobbie Lindsay told her colleagues during the September meeting.