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Permanent Medical Marijuana Regulations on Shoreline City Council Agenda Tonight

Council will likely adopt permanent development code regulations tonight

Medical marijuana collective gardens, the distributors of medical cannabis, are once again on the agenda of the Shoreline City Council.

Interim regulations passed in January are due to expire on July 18, so the Council is expected to pass Ordinance No. 643, which provides for the adoption of permanent development code regulations.

These regulations identify the permitted land uses for collective gardens for the growing and distribution of medical cannabis. The ordinance also declares an emergency so that the regulations can become effective prior to July 18.

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The ordinance states that "a collective garden or facility for delivery of cannabis produced by the garden may not be located within 1,000 feet of schools and not within 1,000 feet of any other collective garden or delivery site."

Four medical marijuana collective gardens have paid an annual regulatory license fee of $599.50 and are licensed to operate in the city of Shoreline:

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•, 15021 Aurora Avenue North.

•, 910 N. 145th St.

•Pacific Northwest Medical, 19926 Aurora Avenue North

•Sea-Shore Collective, 17517 15th Avenue N.E.

A fifth collective garden, Emerald City Compassion Center, 16053 Aurora Ave. N., is the midst of applying for their regulatory license. The city has collected about $3,000 in license revenue which offsets time to process applications by the City Clerk's Office and the additional police time allocated for patrol and enforcement of city regulations. The city has also received more than $5,300 in 2012 sales tax revenue from medical marijuana collective gardens.

and King County Sheriff's detectives are looking for the suspects.


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