The Marijuana Policy Project says it will not appeal a judge’s decision supporting the town’s refusal to put the issue to a townwide vote.
The Marijuana Policy Project has decided not to appeal a Superior Court decision that would have required York selectmen to put a recreational marijuana legalization question on the ballot.
York County Superior Court Justice Paul Fritzsche last month sided with town leaders who twice rejected citizen petitions calling for them to send a proposed marijuana legalization ordinance to voters in November. The judge ruled that legalization advocates, led by the Marijuana Policy Project, were asking the town of York to approve something it cannot regulate because marijuana use is governed by state and federal law, not local ordinances.
Unlike in some other communities, York’s town charter had a clause allowing the Board of Selectmen to reject a petition that is “not lawful.”
