As Delaware prepares for the launch of legal marijuana sales to adults next month, the state’s governor is weighing a bill that would overrule local zoning authority and make it easier for cannabis businesses to set up shop.
Gov. Matt Meyer (D) told reporters this week that there’s a tension between two competing priorities when it comes to the marijuana-related zoning proposal, SB 75.
On one hand, the governor said he’d like to roll out the state’s legal cannabis program as quickly as possible. On the other, as a former county executive, he said it’s important municipal governments retain control over local land use decisions.
“We’re talking to stakeholders to evaluate,” he told Delaware Public Media (DPM). “I’ve been very clear as someone who led the largest local government in Delaware for eight years that we believe strongly in local control, local government control.”
“I’ve also been unambiguous,” the governor added: “I’ve been very clear that we have recreational marijuana that has taken too long to get off the ground… So those are two competing priorities.”
Meyer could sign the bill into law, veto it or allow it to become law without his signature. Notably in 2023, then-Gov. John Carney
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