DANBURY – Mayor Mark Boughton has a message for medical marijuana growers and operators of shops that dispense medicinal pot: stay out of Danbury.
The city has proposed a change to its zoning that would ban medical marijuana production plants and restrict the sale of medical marijuana to pharmacies, even though the production and the sale of medicinal marijuana is legal in Connecticut.
The proposed zoning change that would restrict medical marijuana sales to pharmacies amounts to a ban on sales since no pharmacy wants to risk selling marijuana that is classified by the federal government as a controlled substance.
The new measure could be in place by the end of the year.
The nearest medicinal marijuana dispensary is the Compassionate Care Center of Connecticut in Bethel, which has been operating for a month.