UPDATE: Public Hearing on Growing Medical Marijuana in Woodinville Tuesday

No one showed up to speak at the public hearing on the moratorium on marijuana collective gardening at the Tuesday, Oct. 4.

The council passed a six-month zoning moratorium on Aug. 9 that prohibits the licensing, establishment, maintenance, or continuation of any medical marijuana “collective garden” within city limits.  

The council’s action was in response to amendments passed in this year’s legislative session to Washington’s existing medical marijuana law. The amendments, as contained in Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill (E2SSB) 5073, went into effect July 22, 2011. According to the amendments, a medical marijuana “collective garden” is an area or garden where qualifying patients engage in the production, processing, transporting, and delivery of marijuana for medical use as defined in a 1998 state law (RCW 69.50).  

The entire a council agenda can be read online at the city’s website by clicking here.