Township Council members approved an ordinance that bans all recreational marijuana businesses from operating within the township. This includes dispensaries, cultivators and testing facilities.
The adoption came after lengthy discussion that included public comment, and after council member Francine Ritter proposed that the council consider pulling the ordinance and reconvening with a public forum.
"Reconsider this one and allow the public to speak," she said.
That won't happen.
Though some council members expressed concern over making a decision on Wednesday night, a majority of board members remained steadfast in what was an expected vote to ban the establishments. Ritter was the only council member to vote against the ordinance.
Council member Joseph Scuralli was among the loudest opposition voices.
He called state lawmakers "radicals" and hammered them over their earlier passage of a clause that forbade law enforcement from telling parents if their kids were arrested with marijuana.