Correction: Our good buddy Nathan Burgess over at the Stowe Reporter informed us that Rutland was apparently not the first city to prohibit medical marijuana dispensaries. Stowe passed a prohibition in June.
Rutland has apparently become the first municipality in Vermont to officially prohibit medical marijuana dispensaries within its borders.
The Rutland Herald‘s Gordon Dritschilo reports that Rutland’s board of aldermen on Monday voted unanimously — and without debate — to pass an ordinance banning medical pot facilities from setting up shop within city limits. A state law passed in 2011 permits four state-sanctioned dispensaries in Vermont; to date, the state has approved two, one in Burlington and the other in Waterbury.
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And then of course there are the feds busting these dispensarys around the country, since state law doesn’t trump federal law which still bans pot. Kudos to Rutland for not crapping on federal law and condemning the illegal laws passed in Montpelier by Shumlin and his minions.