Medical marijuana deliveries given OK

State- licensed medical marijuana dispensaries will be allowed to deliver cannabis products to Longmont medical marijuana patients’ homes starting Oct. 26 under an ordinance that got final City Council approval in a unanimous vote Tuesday night.

Under the ordinance as amended by the council on Sept. 22 and approved Tuesday, the cannabis products wouldn’t be limited to those sold by Longmontlicensed medical marijuana businesses.

That drew objections during a Tuesday night public hearing from Kristen Thompson, a representative of The Green Solution, a business licensed by Longmont to sell recreational cannabis products from a storefront at 206 S. Main St. but that doesn’t have a Longmont medicalmarijuana license.

Businesses outside the city limits don’t have to meet the same storefront requirements that Longmont has for businesses within its boundaries, Thompson said.

However, Shannon Fender, a representative of Native Roots, which has a dispensary at 19 S. Sunset St. in unincorporated Boulder County and outside Longmont, applauded the measure’s language allowing out- of- the- city medical marijuana businesses to deliver to customers in Longmont.

Council members also heard from Ashley Weber, a representative of the Colorado chapter of NORML, the National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws, who called into the public hearing to express support for the ordinance.

State- licensed medical marijuana businesses will have to adhere to the state regulations about such deliveries.