There are no cannabis dispensaries to zone in St. Joseph County. Indiana has no medical or recreational marijuana program, and selling marijuana is a crime. Under IC 35-48-4-10, manufacturing or delivering marijuana is dealing in marijuana, a Class A misdemeanor that rises to a felony.
St. Joseph County cannot zone marijuana dispensaries because none may lawfully exist in Indiana; the state has authorized neither medical nor recreational cannabis retail. IC 35-48-4-10 makes manufacturing, financing, or delivering marijuana the offense of dealing in marijuana, a Class A misdemeanor at the base level that escalates to a Level 6 or Level 5 felony by amount, enhancing circumstances, or prior conviction. Any storefront selling marijuana in South Bend, Mishawaka, or unincorporated St. Joseph County would be prosecuted as unlawful dealing, not handled as a zoning matter. The Area Plan Commission's zoning ordinance never reaches the question because the underlying activity is a state crime.
Operating a marijuana retail outlet is prosecuted as dealing in marijuana under IC 35-48-4-10, a Class A misdemeanor rising to a Level 6 or Level 5 felony by amount or prior conviction, not a zoning citation.
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