A. The purpose of this chapter is to enact a prohibition of all medical and recreational marijuana uses, including medical marijuana dispensaries, collective gardens, cooperatives, individual or group cultivation of marijuana, and all marijuana production, processing, research and retailing, including those marijuana businesses licensed by the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board.

B. It is also the purpose of this chapter to stem the negative impacts and secondary effects associated with all marijuana uses, whether medical or recreational, including but not limited to the extraordinary and unsustainable demands that have been or will be placed upon scarce city policing, legal, policy and administrative resources; neighborhood disruption, increased transient visitors and intimidation; the exposure of school-age children and other sensitive residents to marijuana; illegal sales to both minors and adults; fraud in issuing, obtaining or using marijuana prescriptions and murders, robberies, burglaries, assaults, drug trafficking and other violent crimes.

C. No part of this chapter is intended to or shall be deemed to conflict with federal law, including but not limited to the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. Section 800 et seq., or the Uniform Controlled Substances Act (Chapter 69.50 RCW). (Ord. 1323 § 3, 2015).