Senate Bill 801 would give municipalities more control over where marijuana grow operations can locate within city limits. If passed, cities and towns could modify their planning and zoning ordinances to determine or forbid certain zones and districts for operation of new marijuana-licenses premises.
Senator Bill Coleman is the author of the bill.
“Currently, Oklahoma’s statutes are confusing as to whether municipalities have the power to decide if they want marijuana grows in their communities, so this gives them control of such decisions for businesses licensed after Nov. 1,” Coleman said. “This should be a decision left up to local authorities as they have to deal with the increased crime, the odor, and other dangers like large building fires that endanger not only other businesses but residents as well.”
Marijuana businesses already in location could continue to operate until they were no longer licensed by the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority.
