PIERRE — The long path to establishing ordinances to implement sales, growing, testing and manufacturing of medical marijuana in Pierre and Hughes County is coming to a close. The Pierre City Commission hosted a joint meeting with the Hughes County Commission Tuesday night to approve zoning for cannabis establishments in the extra territorial area shared by both bodies. During the public hearing for the zoning ordinance, Aviana Knochel directed her comments at another ordinance on licensing…
City of Pierre Finance Officer Twlia Hight addressed Knochel’s comments when the City Commission considered second and final reading of Pierre’s medical cannabis licensing ordinance…
Pierre is restricting the four areas of medical cannabis operations to commercial and industrial zoned areas of the city and is restricting it in residential areas and within 1000 feet of educational facilities, which is laid out in state law.
