Marijuana dispensary siting is a town decision, not a county one. Under MGL c.94G §3 each Plymouth County community adopts bylaws governing the time, place, and manner of marijuana establishments and may cap or, by ballot vote, prohibit them.
MGL c.94G §3 lets a city or town impose reasonable safeguards on marijuana establishments, including bylaws that govern the time, place, and manner of operation and limit their number. Plymouth County communities use this power to confine dispensaries to industrial or commercial zones, set buffer distances from schools, cap store counts, and require host community agreements. A town may ban recreational marijuana businesses entirely, but only where local voters approved the ban at the ballot, since the 2016 legalization vote otherwise controls. Brockton and several towns permit dispensaries; others have voted them out. Medical treatment centers licensed before July 2017 keep conversion rights.
A marijuana establishment operating outside a town's zoning bylaw or without its special permit and host agreement faces license denial from the Cannabis Control Commission and local cease-and-desist enforcement.
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