{"id":44103,"date":"2023-05-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelandmark.com\/?p=44103"},"modified":"2023-05-18T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T10:00:00","slug":"princeton-voters-approve-questions-restricting-marijuana-business-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/2023\/05\/18\/princeton-voters-approve-questions-restricting-marijuana-business-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Princeton voters approve questions restricting marijuana business"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"byline\"><b>By Ken Cleveland <\/b><br \/>\n<i>Landmark Correspondent<\/i><\/div>\n<p>PRINCETON \u2014 Voters faced a ballot with no contests in the May 8 election, but three questions restricting marijuana cultivation, processing and manufacturing were decided.<\/p>\n<p>All three questions passed, prohibiting commercial cultivation, processing and\/or manufacturing of marijuana in Residential-Agricultural districts and Business districts (Question One, passed 246 to 88), and in the Business-Industrial District (Question Two, passed 231 to 111); and regulating indoor commercial cultivation, processing and manufacturing of marijuana only for \u201cmedical purposes\u201d in the Business-Industrial District (Question Three, passed 225 to 115).<\/p>\n<p>The questions followed votes at the May 2022 annual town meeting, which needed follow-up votes at the town election to put the restrictions in place.<\/p>\n<p>Officials elected were Philip Gott (298 votes) to the three-year seat on the Select Board; Helen Townsend (301) to the three-year seat on the Assessors; Laurie Kraemer (300) to the two-year seat on the Assessors; Richard Rys Jr. (288) for the threeyear seat on the Electric Light Commission; Ian Catlow (289) and John Mirick (287) for the three-year seats on the Planning Board; and Harry Pape (312) to the one-year position of Town Moderator.<\/p>\n<p>With 343 votes cast, 11% of the town\u2019s 3,074 registered voters participated in the democratic election process, according to the town clerk\u2019s unofficial results reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> PRINCETON \u2014 Voters faced a ballot with no contests in the May 8 election, but three questions restricting marijuana cultivation, processing and manufacturing were decided. All three questions passed, prohibiting commercial cultivation, processing and\/or manufacturing of marijuana in Residential-Agricultural districts and Business districts (Question One, passed 246 to 88), and in the Business-Industrial District (Question Two, passed 231 to 111); and regulating indoor commercial cultivation, processing and manufacturing of marijuana only for \u201cmedical purposes\u201d in the Business-Industrial District (Question Three, passed 225 to 115).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}