Oak Creek Town Board to Vote on Cultivation Moratorium

The town of Oak Creek is scheduled to vote on a 90 day moratorium to prevent medical marijuana cultivation land-use requests from being approved by the town. The moratorium is not retroactive and will not apply to grow operations that began before the moratorium is to be put in place.

The town does not want to get into the legality of marijuana grow operations, or the medical marijuana political debate. The moratorium is in response to informal requests about the possibility of large medical marijuana cultivation operations on Main Street.

The town rejected a moratorium on dispensaries in January and instead decided to grant a conditional license for one dispensary. Dispensary members testified during the hearing that they grow most of their medical marijuana outside of Oak Creek and bring it in to sell at the dispensary.