While the sale of recreational marijuana becomes legal in Minnesota on August 1st, it will not be legal – yet — in East Grand Forks.
The city council on Wednesday voted unanimously in favor of a moratorium.
City attorney Ron Galstad said the state law allows a city to do that for up to two years.
“It’s so we can figure out time, place and manner issues, where they can be located, if they need to be a certain distance from schools – those types of things,” Galstad said.
The council says the moratorium prohibits the sale, testing, manufacturing, cultivating, growing, transporting, delivery and distribution of cannabis in the city limits.