March 29, 2018
Riverside is moving toward an expansive ban on marijuana-related activities in the city.
The ban, which must be approved as a city ordinance before it takes effect, would replace Riverside’s current moratorium that temporarily prohibits most marijuana business. The City Council voted Tuesday night, March 27, to ask staff members to prepare such rules.
Councilman Chuck Conder proposed the ban, which would bar the retail and commercial sale, commercial cultivation, distribution, and outdoor cultivation of medical marijuana plants. He did so after a delegation of city officials who traveled to Denver, including Conder himself, gave a three-hour presentation on the effects of marijuana legalization in that city.
