Commissioner Chet Spear, who opposed marijuana in all respect, opposed both ordinances.
Commissioners contemplated onerous restrictions, and Doerr warned any effort to treat marijuana more harshly than alcohol without data-based reasoning would create a tenuous legal position where the county treats citizens differently based on their drug of choice.
The sheriff’s office is currently down six positions, Waller said, and adding cannabis as a legal substance means deputies would be dealing with another impaired driving threat.
Spear later suggested moving closing times back to 8 p.m., but also said he’d allow just one hour of operation per day if he thought it would survive a court challenge.
A restriction keeping cannabis establishments 1,000 feet away from each other was originally just 200 feet, but was increased as Spear aimed to keep the stretch of U.S.