Leisure marijuana shops are on observe to be a actuality in Brewer.
Metropolis councilors authorized a planning board advice at a Tuesday night time assembly that can amend the town’s land-use code to permit adult-use hashish shops.
The vote, which handed unanimously by way of consent calendar, implies that leisure retailers will be capable of open up store in Brewer’s normal enterprise {and professional} enterprise zones, whereas testing amenities shall be allowed within the normal enterprise and industrial zones.
Medical marijuana amenities can even get pleasure from looser restrictions beneath the set of code modifications. Setback guidelines governing how shut they are often to colleges, methadone clinics, day cares and locations of worship shall be lowered to 500 ft from an earlier rule requiring that they be 1,000 ft or extra away.
Medical and adult-use amenities should be 100 ft away from present personal houses, and 500 or extra ft away from one another.
Mayor Michele Daniels stated that the ordinance would take impact in 30 days.
Till Tuesday night time, the land-use code had solely allowed one registered medical marijuana dispensary and one cultivation facility in Brewer’s skilled enterprise district, on Dirigo Drive. The brand new ordinance removes that restrict and permits extra outlets to open up alongside that road.
Throughout the Penobscot River, a handful of marijuana retailers have opened in Bangor since Maine allowed leisure use gross sales final fall. And one store is on observe to open in Orono as that city types out what its ultimate leisure marijuana ordinance will appear to be.
Leisure marijuana gross sales in Maine have grown since they have been allowed final October, recording $10.2 million in gross sales in August.
