North Salem News 06.10.21

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What is a permissive
referendum?
Marijuana dispensaries could

be a ballot issue

BY BRIAN municipality’s clerk within that Burdick (D-Bedford) both vot- PHOTO COURTESY OF NORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION
timeframe. If enough quali ed ed yes. It was signed by the gov-
MARSCHHAUSER voters sign the petition, the is- ernor a day later. Naturalist Jim Nordgren leading a bobolink hike in 2019.
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR sue would be put to a town-wide
vote, either in the general elec- e law legalized recreational Saving the planet,
If the people of North Salem tion in November or in a special marijuana use for people 21 one tweet at a time
want marijuana dispensaries and election. and older. New Yorkers may
consumption sites in their town, now possess up to three ounces Bobolinks nd ne-feathered
it is up to them to put it to a vote. To get the issue onto the bal- of marijuana and smoke it in friends in North Salem
lot, at least 10 percent of mu- public, wherever tobacco use is
Enacted in March, the state’s nicipal residents who voted in allowed. ey’re also allowed to BY CAROL REIF naturalist Jim Nordgren.
Marijuana Regulation and Taxa- the last gubernatorial election have 24 grams of concentrated
tion Act gave local governing (2018) would need to sign the forms of the drug, such as oils, STAFF WRITER Nordgren is set to lead a walk-
bodies the opportunity to “opt petition. Only residents eligible for recreational use.
out” of allowing marijuana dis- to vote can sign the petition. ing lesson on its curriculum vitae
pensaries and consumption sites Forty percent of tax revenue
in their communities. at means in North Salem, generated by adult-use cannabis e bobolink’s just a little bird, from 2-3:30 p.m. Sunday, June
where 2,371 residents voted in will go to community develop-
Many towns in Putnam and the 2018 election for governor, at ment in minority areas dispro- but it’s a big deal to North Sa- 13, at the Hay eld-on-Keeler
Westchester counties appear least 238 quali ed voters would portionately ravaged by the so-
destined to take the state up have to sign the petition. called “war on drugs,”launched a lemites. Preserve, known as Bobolink
on that o er, but the nal deci- half-century ago. e remaining
sion may ultimately lie with the Municipal Home-Rule Law money will be shared by schools e avian visitor aps thou- Central in these parts.
voters. A local law opting out, does not allow town boards to put and education (40 percent) and
which must be adopted by year’s the issue to a public referendum. drug treatment and education sands of miles each spring just e hike is being organized
end, is subject to permissive ref- It must be done by the voters. programs (20 percent).
erendum governed by the state’s to mate and nest in the town’s by the North Salem Open Land
Municipal Home-Rule Law. e 160-page Marijuana Reg- e legislation’s passage also
ulation and Taxation Act was means that someone convicted many meadows and hay elds. Foundation (NSOLF).
e local law opting out passed mostly down party lines of pot-related o enses, ones no
would take e ect 45 days after in the Senate, 40-23, and in the longer criminalized, will have North Salem is one of the Mascot-wise, if nearby Somers
its adoption, unless a valid pe- Assembly, 94-46, on March 30. their records automatically
tition requesting a permissive Sen. Peter Hackham (D-South erased. few towns in Westchester where has its elephant, bucolic North
referendum is led with the Salem) and Assemblyman Chris
there’s enough of the songbird’s SEE BOBOLINK PAGE 22
natural habitat left for that, says

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LEGAL NOTICES 24
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