INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — The Indian River County Board of Commissioners will take preemptive action to control the sale of medical marijuana in the County in order to be prepared should Florida voters pass Amendment 2 in November. With early polls showing support for the constitutional amendment at greater than 60 percent, passage seems likely.
For the second time, medical marijuana has accumulated enough petitions to earn a spot on the ballot, and at the April 5 BCC meeting, Commissioner Peter O’Bryan asked the board to consider revisiting the zoning changes proposed in 2014, which would restrict locations where marijuana could be sold, “so as to be in place and grandfathered in prior to the November vote,” he explained.
In September 2014, the Board authorized the County Attorney’s office to draft such an ordinance in the event Amendment 2 was passed that year; but voters chose not to legalize the controversial weed, and the County’s draft ordinance went no further.
County Attorney Dylan Reingold will bring updated draft ordinance before the Commission within the next few weeks.