The purpose of this chapter is to minimize any adverse public safety and public health impacts that may result from allowing medical and recreational marijuana facilities in the city by adopting particular time, place and manner requirements and a registration process for such facilities. Specifically, these time, place and manner requirements are intended to further the following objectives:
A.
Prevent the distribution of marijuana to persons under 21 years of age;
B.
Prevent revenue from the sale of marijuana from going to criminal enterprises, gangs, and cartels;
C.
Prevent the diversion of marijuana from this state to other states;
D.
Prevent marijuana activity that is legal under state law from being used as a cover or pretext for the trafficking of other illegal drugs or other illegal activity;
E.
Prevent violence and the use of firearms in the cultivation and distribution of marijuana;
F.
Prevent drugged driving and the exacerbation of other adverse public health consequences associated with the use of marijuana.
(Ord. 798 § 1, 2015; Ord. 810 § 1, 2016)