Elsmere City Council listened to a presentation on medical cannabis licensing at their June 4 caucus meeting. Medical cannabis will be legal in the state effective Jan. 1, 2025.
Each individual city is responsible for creating the zoning regulations to make way or not allow those types of businesses to operate; however, if cities do not have those regulations in place by June 30, the state can begin issuing licenses, and if those businesses start operations, they will be grandfathered against any future regulation, according to the presentation by Sharmili Reddy, executive director of the Planning and Development Services, known as PDS, of Kenton County. Our Summer Campaign is happening NOW . Your contribution will directly drive our mission to deliver independent news for our community.
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Elsmere may follow the state legislation via the ballot process and subsequently work with PDS to determine zoning for cannabis operations within city limits. They may also reject the legislation by enacting their own ordinances ahead of the Jan. 1 deadline or put the issue on a ballot for the general public, for which Aug.
13 is the deadline. .
