The purpose of this chapter is to minimize any adverse public safety and public health impacts that may result from allowing psilocybin manufacturing facilities or psilocybin service centers in the City by prohibiting the establishment of certain State-registered and State-licensed psilocybin businesses within the City of Harrisburg and is intended to further the following objectives:
1.
Prevent the distribution of psilocybin to persons under 21 years of age;
2.
Prevent revenue from the sale of psilocybin from going to criminal enterprises, gangs, and cartels;
3.
Prevent the diversion of psilocybin from this State to other states;
4.
Prevent psilocybin 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;
5.
Prevent violence and the use of firearms in the cultivation and distribution of psilocybin;
6.
Prevent drugged driving and the exacerbation of other adverse public health consequences associated with the use of psilocybin.
(Ord. 984 § 1, 2022)