The town board in Riverhead has been juggling the proposed passage of a law that would opt out of retail cannabis dispensaries around the region.
Board members said that they were open to hearing opinions from the community on whether or not they should seek to make that ban and leave cannabis sales out of the community.
Should they criminalize sales of this plant for those individuals who might want to be making those sorts of exchanges in Riverhead? That's the question some adults in this region want to spend time thinking about.
One previous anonymous online survey had allegedly showed that there was a majority support for the approval of retail cannabis sales in the area. Despite many who might need it though, not everyone might be willing to make the change yet and they might not be willing to allow others to embrace that freedom for themselves.
For now it looks like the town of Riverhead will not be moving forward however with those restrictions for sales, they're not rushing to opt out of retail cannabis sales and on-site consumption locations in the region just yet. But there is the chance that this could change in the future.