Carbondale moving forward with medical marijuana regs

Source: www.vaildaily.com --- Thursday, July 29, 2010CARBONDALE - Even with 12 current Medical Marijuana retail facilities, and prospects for three more, the town of Carbondale is still not of the mind to put a cap on the number of such facilities it will allow. "While a cap would benefit the facilities already in existence, it would be an artificial constraint on the market," according to one of the findings of Carbondale's specially appointed Medical Marijuana Facility Advisory Group. The group, made up of citizens, business owners, Medical Marijuana dispensary owners, Medical and mental health professionals, and a school board representative, presented its findings, along with several recommendations for a variety of local regulatory controls to the Carbondale Board of Trustees Tuesday night. Recent new state legislation does allow communities to place a cap on the number and size of Medical Marijuana facilities. However, one of the new state laws also requires dispensaries - now referred to under t ...