Austintown looking to allow one adult-use marijuana dispensary i – WFMJ.com News weather sports for Youngstown-Warren Ohio Austintown looking to allow one adult-use marijuana dispensary in township following moratorium
Last month, Austintown Trustees unanimously approved a moratorium that would prohibit adult-use marijuana dispensaries from coming into the township. Now, trustees are looking to change that.
Township trustees will meet at 5:30 p.m. Monday to discuss legislation that would allow for one adult-use marijuana dispensary in the township.
Trustee Bruce Shepas tells 21 News the reason for the change is that the moratorium was passed to give the township more time to assess the situation and wait for guidelines from the state to come out on how to handle dispensaries and how much of the sales tax revenue the township will get.
Now that those guidelines are out, Shepas says trustees are more comfortable to reconsider the issue.
Shepas tells us the State of Ohio will collect a 10% sales tax from adult-use cannabis sales in the state. Of that 10%, the municipality the dispensary is located in will get 35% of that revenue.
Trustee Robert Santos tells 21 News he hopes
