After being put on the backburner for more than two months, the Frankfort Board of Commissioners will resume discussion of a medical cannabis ordinance at its Jan. 27 voting meeting.
In late October, City Solicitor Laura Milam presented a draft ordinance that would establish the local licensing process, application requirements, license fees and enforcement procedures for medical cannabis cultivators, processors and dispensaries.
While Frankfort and Franklin County did not have any applicants selected in the medical cannabis license lottery held for cultivators and processors last fall, a local applicant was chosen for a medical cannabis dispensary license in a lottery that took place on Dec. 16.
"We didn't receive anything in the first couple of lotteries and we thought that the medical marijuana ordinance was a lower priority so we took it off the agendas," Milam explained. "However, it turns out once you decide 'oh, this isn't our issue,' we are going to be getting a dispensary, which means we need to bring back regulations for how to establish the licenses, the regulatory provisions that are going to apply to them, the fees and how they'll be enforced."
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