We respectfully request that the Marijuana Legalization Law Section 6.8 be amended to include State, Local, State and Locally Contracted and Private Family Service Facilities and State, Local and Private Rehabilitation Centers. And to remove "parks" and replace with "parks which contain sports field(s) and or playground equipment. Or to make changes as allowed under Section 9 to the same effect.
Initiative 1-502 was passed with the provision that the State Liquor Board shall not issue a license for any premises within one thousand feet of the perimeter of the grounds of any elementary or secondary school, playground, recreation center or facility, child care center, public park, public transit center, or library, or any game arcade admission to which is not restricted to persons aged twenty-one years or older. The intent of this provision was to safe guard anyone under 21 from being directly exposed to the sale of marijuana and provides a manageable distance from facilities and institutions that are expected to host a high concentration of people under 21. We feel the law failed to include some very important institutions in the exclusion zone (family services) and included one fairly inconsequential one (parks not commonly used by minors). We feel that the addition of Family Service Facilities is in keeping with the intent of the law to exclude institutes or facilities with an expected high concentration of clients under the age of 21 as well as working with vulnerable populations. We feel that the inclusion of State, Local, Contracted and Private Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers is fairly self evident as the convenience, availability and proximity of controlled substances are in conflict with the goals and mission of the Centers. We respectfully ask that these changes be done immediately to avoid any licenses permitted and grandfathered within the 1000 perimeter boundary of the newly added institutions.
In addition, we ask for parks which are not expected to host a high concentration of users under the age of 21, such as parks without fields and/or playground equipment to be removed and replace with "parks which contain sports field(s) and or playground equipment" so that additional geographic areas are opened up as permitted zones allowing more varied and spread out communities to have opportunities for new premises while still maintaining the intent of the law to exclude facilities with an expected high concentration of minors. We respectfully ask that this change be implemented immediately to allow more communities to participate in hosting new premises from the onset.
We ask for these changes by amending Marijuana Legalization Law Section 6.8 or by issuing changes as allowed under Section 9 to the same effect.