As New Jersey officials continues to hammer out regulations for the state’s new recreational marijuana market, Lake Como has taken the first step to ban all cannabis-related businesses within its borders.
The Lake Como Council on June 15 introduced an ordinance to prohibit businesses that sell, manufacture, distribute and deliver marijuana and other cannabis products in this small municipality. It does not stop the use of cannabis or cannabis products in the borough or the delivery of recreational marijuana from outside the borough, which are permitted under the state’s cannabis laws.
“Due to present uncertainties regarding the potential future impact of allowing one or more classes of cannabis businesses might have on New Jersey municipalities in general, and on the Borough of Lake Como in particular, it is at this time necessary and appropriate, and in the best interest of the health, safety and welfare of the borough’s residents and members of the public who visit, travel or conduct business in Lake Como to prohibit all manner of marijuana-related land use and development within the geographic boundaries of the borough,” the measures states.