SURRY — Voters during the Nov. 3 election will be asked whether to allow retail marijuana operations in Surry.
Resident Karl Holmes had circulated a citizen’s petition last winter to get the question on the ballot.
The question is: “Do you want to allow the cultivation, manufacture, distribution, testing and sale of marijuana products subject to state regulation, taxation and town ordinances in Surry?”
“This way we’ll get more people to actually vote on it,” said Selectman Betsy Armstrong of the timing of the vote.
The turnout at the polls, especially during a presidential election, is usually greater than at an annual Town Meeting.
The referendum legalizing adult-use recreational marijuana in Maine was in November 2016. Municipalities must “opt in” to allowing adult-use businesses. Fifty-two of Maine’s 430 towns and 23 cities have decided to allow some kind of adult-use business to open within their borders, the Portland…