WESTPORT The state Attorney General has rejected two bylaw amendments approved in October that prohibited the legal sale of non-medical marijuana within town borders.
The ruling, according to Planning Board Chairman James Whitin, was expected. He mentioned that it would not alter articles that will appear at the annual Town Meeting later in the year that will seek to prohibit the sale of non-medical marijuana. Those articles, unlike the ones rejected by the Attorney General Maura Healey, represent zoning changes.
The Oct. 3 special Town Meeting votes on two articles sought to initiate a ban, after voters at a February Town Meeting voted to lift a previous ban on the sale of non-medical marijuana. The February votes allowed approved medical marijuana establishments to branch out and sell non-medical products. Right now, there is only one approved facility Coastal Healing on State Road. That facility’s applicant initiated the February petition article vote and has express