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Resolution calling on the Director of City Planning and the Zoning Administrator to add and incorporate "Medical Marijuana Growing / Processing Facility" to the City Code and Zoning Code and to restrict these sites to existing General Industrial and Urban Industrial Districts
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WHEREAS, the Pennsylvania state legislature passed legislation that would allow for the growing, processing, and dispensation of medical marijuana within the State; and
WHEREAS, said legislation approved the use of medical marijuana for the treatment of the following conditions: cancer, positive status for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, inflammatory bowel disease, neuropathies, Huntington's disease, Crohn's disease, post-traumatic stress disorder, intractable seizures, glaucoma, sickle cell anemia, autism, damage to the nervous tissue of the spinal cord with objective neurological indication of intractable spasticity, severe chronic or intractable pain of neuropathic origin or severe chronic or intractable pain in which conventional therapeutic intervention and opiate therapy is contraindicated or ineffective, or terminal illness, wherein an individual has a medical prognosis of life expectancy of approximately one year or less if the illness runs its normal course; and
WHEREAS, to receive a permit from the state to grow, process, or dispense medical marijuana, an applicant must submit the following information to the Pennsylvania Department of Health: verification of all principals, operators, financial backers or employees of a medical marijuana grower/processor or dispensary; a description of responsibilities as a principal, operator, financial backer or employee; any release necessary to obtain information from governmental agencies, employers and other organizations; a criminal history record check; details relating to a similar license, per...
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