WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The town’s effort to reach a consensus on regulations for cannabis production continues Wednesday evening with a panel discussion hosted by the Planning Board.
As part of the board’s yearlong effort to develop a zoning bylaw amendment that might pass at this spring’s annual town meeting, it has scheduled a virtual event titled “Marijuana Cultivation: Issues and Opportunities,” for 7:30 p.m. on the Zoom virtual meeting platform.
The chair of the Planning Board in Sheffield will join two attorneys from KP Law and the CEO of EOS Farm, a large cannabis cultivator in Pittsfield, to talk about some of the considerations that Williamstown faces in developing a new pot bylaw.
The Planning Board last year tried to update the cannabis bylaw passed hurriedly by the town in 2017 in reaction to the 2016’s statewide vote to decriminalize recreational marijuana. That bylaw, still in effect, allows marijuana production by special permit in three of the town’s zoning districts.
But the 2017 bylaw, passed before the commonwealth’s Cannabis Control Commission established a regulatory regime for the drug’s production and sale in the state, is out of date. And the only special permit for production applied for under the 2017 bylaw showed that there were potential deficiencies in the local regulations, including the…
