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    Lancaster one of seventeen in county opting out of pot shops and consumption sites

    BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Opt in or opt out? That’s the decision many towns, villages and cities will soon need to make when it comes to marijuana sales in their area.

    The deadline is this Friday. If they don’t make a decision, they will automatically be rolled into the state’s program, which will allow for recreational marijuana dispensaries in their area.

    There are 42 towns, villages and cities within Erie County. If you live in a municipality that has opted out, you can still get home delivery.

    17 towns and villages in the county have opted out of both dispensaries and consumption sites, according to the Rockefeller Institute of Government.

    Those places include the following:

    • Village of Akron
    • Village of Alden
    • Town of Aurora
    • Town of Brant
    • Town of Clarence
    • Town of Colden
    • Town of Collins
    • Town of Elma
    • Village of Gowanda
    • Town of Holland
    • Town of Lancaster
    • Town of Marilla
    • Town of Newstead
    • Town of North Collins
    • Village of Orchard Park
    • Town of Wales
    • Village of Williamsville

    There are a total of 1,518 municipalities in New York. Across the entire Empire State, 588 municipalities have opted out of dispensaries and 670 have opted out of consumption sites.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Opt in or opt out? That’s the decision many towns, villages and cities will soon need to make when it comes to marijuana sales in their area.

    The deadline is this Friday. If they don’t make a decision, they will automatically be rolled into the state’s program, which will allow for recreational marijuana dispensaries in their area.

    There are 42 towns, villages and cities within Erie County. If you live in a municipality that has opted out, you can still get home delivery.

    17 towns and villages in the county have opted out of both dispensaries and consumption sites, according to the Rockefeller Institute of Government.

    Those places include the following:

    • Village of Akron
    • Village of Alden
    • Town of Aurora
    • Town of Brant
    • Town of Clarence
    • Town of Colden
    • Town of Collins
    • Town of Elma
    • Village of Gowanda
    • Town of Holland
    • Town of Lancaster
    • Town of Marilla
    • Town of Newstead
    • Town of North Collins
    • Village of Orchard Park
    • Town of Wales
    • Village of Williamsville

    There are a total of 1,518 municipalities in New York. Across the entire Empire State, 588 municipalities have opted out of dispensaries and 670 have opted out of consumption sites.
    I looked on the Village of Lancaster site the other day to see if there was anything on the agenda for Monday's meeting. Apparently, they don't post agendas anymore. They haven't posted minutes since October 11th. Thanks for posting this. Apparently the Lancaster village is opting in along with Depew who opted in earlier this month.

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    The town's opt out resolution was adopted on November 15.
    Wouldn't tomorrow be the 45th day for the petition for the referendum to be submitted?

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    Quote Originally Posted by gorja View Post
    The town's opt out resolution was adopted on November 15.
    Wouldn't tomorrow be the 45th day for the petition for the referendum to be submitted?
    Yes. Where it gets interesting is that Town Hall closes at 12 noon tomorrow and referendum petitions can be entered until 12 midnight, December 30th. - lockbox if need be.

    I have not heard whether referendum petitions have been circulated or submitted yet. Have you?

    If petitions have been collected and are being held till the 11th hour for submittal for whatever reason, the impact / consequences to the community's best interests are not served in time, effort, and associated costs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    Yes. Where it gets interesting is that Town Hall closes at 12 noon tomorrow and referendum petitions can be entered until 12 midnight, December 30th. - lockbox if need be.

    I have not heard whether referendum petitions have been circulated or submitted yet. Have you?

    If petitions have been collected and are being held till the 11th hour for submittal for whatever reason, the impact / consequences to the community's best interests are not served in time, effort, and associated costs.
    This gentleman stated that he was circulating a petition

    https://www.lancasterbee.com/article...-of-lancaster/

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    Unlike driving drunk, driving high can pose distinctive risks
    By Dani Blum
    NEW YORK TIMES

    BOSTON – Is driving while high on marijuana as dangerous as driving drunk?

    Any form of driving while intoxicated is obviously a bad idea but smoking a joint or taking an edible before getting behind the wheel can pose distinctive risks. That, experts say, is because of the particular ways that marijuana affects the brain and the fact that there’s no standard dose for a federally criminalized drug.

    With alcohol, there are universally accepted quantities for what constitutes a single drink: 12 ounces of regular beer, 5 ounces of wine and 1.5 ounces of distilled spirits. There’s no agreed-upon equivalent for cannabis, said Marlene Lira, a senior research manager at the Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit at Boston Medical Center. This makes it tricky for consumers to measure how much they’ve actually consumed. During the past decade, car accidents involving cannabis have been rising, and recreational use of the drug continues to climb. A recent analysis of U.S. public safety data showed that from 2000 to 2018, the percentage of motor vehicle fatalities involving cannabis more than doubled from 9% to about 22%. By contrast, the percentage of fatalities involving alcohol stayed roughly the same.

    While there’s a dearth of data directly comparing the hazards of driving while high versus driving while drunk, the research that does exist suggests that marijuana may be less likely than alcohol to lead to deadly car crashes. In one 2017 examination of more than 4,000 drivers from a police database in France, researchers found that drivers under the influence of alcohol were roughly 17.8 times more likely to be responsible for fatal car crashes than drivers who were sober, while drivers under the influence of marijuana were 1.65 times more likely to cause deadly accidents.

    Studies like these often rely on drivers who were drug tested after car crashes. But because cannabis can hang around in fatty tissues for up to 28 days, a positive drug test does not necessarily mean that a driver was high at the moment they were driving.

    It’s also tricky for marijuana users to predict how exactly they’ll be impaired and for how long. If you smoke a joint or take a bong hit, you’ll feel high within minutes and then return to a base level after three or four hours, Dr. Godfrey Pearlson, a neuroscience professor at Yale University who has researched marijuana and car safety, said. If you opt for a pot brownie or a gummy, it takes longer for the high to kick in, since the marijuana in edibles has to be absorbed into your gut and be metabolized through your liver.

    THC, the intoxicating substance in cannabis, impairs a number of behaviors related to driving, including the ability to weave between lanes. It also delays response times in general, Lira said.

    The psychoactive effects of cannabis can also make driving dangerous. The paranoia that some people experience while high could induce a panic attack while on the road, Reiff said.

    Weed also can create an altered sense of time, the sludgy sense that everything around you is moving slower than it actually is. “There’s that joke: Why did you get pulled over?” he said. “If you’re speeding, it’s because of alcohol. If you’re going too slow, it’s because of cannabis.”

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