There will be no marijuana dispensaries in Madison Township. The township trustees voted unanimously at their regular meeting on Monday to pass a resolution that prohibits “adult use cannabis operators and medical marijuana cultivators, processors and retail dispensaries in the unincorporated area of Madison Township.”
According to the resolution, the action was allowed under Ohio Revised Code section 3780.25, which involves adult use cannabis operators and was effective Dec. 7, 2023, and section 3796.29 involving medical marijuana, which was effective Sept. 8, 2016. Section 3780 and was part of State Issue 2 that Ohio voters approved last November.
Trustees began reviewing a township resolution involving marijuana after officials of Backroad Wellness of Cambridge, Ohio, told the board at its Feb. 5 meeting that the medical marijuana company was looking at Madison Township as a possible location for a new retail facility. Company officials said the firm was allowed to open three more locations under recent legislation governing recreational marijuana and was looking at an undisclosed site where an existing building would be torn down and a new 4,000-square-foot facility would be constructed.