In Colorado, 24 communities voted to ban or restrict shops selling legal medical marijuana.
The panel rejects the development of Dutch-style cannabis cafes in Britain, preferring to restrict shops sales so that there are not "destination" retailers.
Today Massachusetts and Rhode Island are the last states to restrict shopping on Thanksgiving, and Paramus, N.J., the site of several major malls, may be unique in banning shopping on Thanksgiving and Sundays.
Some parts of Spain, such as Catalonia, have laws to restrict shopping hours and block out-of-town stores, aimed at preserving small food shops (many of which are now run by Chinese immigrants) and preventing suburban sprawl (from which Madrid, more liberal in these matters, now suffers).
Laws exist to restrict betting shops to a maximum of four betting machines each, but Labour has said this has meant more betting shops in clusters, sometimes open from 7.30am to 10pm.
Instead he said councils could apply to the government to restrict betting shops using "permitted development" powers – which the Local Government Association describes as "ineffective, inefficient and heavily bureaucratic, not least because they require a 12-month notice period before they can be used".
Lord Borwick will lay out the amendments which were first drawn up by the Conservative MP, Philip Davies - a doughty campaigner on overhauling the 20-year-old Sunday trading laws which restrict larger shops to opening for six hours.
Approximately 75% of respondents said that they would avoid public transportation, and similar numbers would avoid places of entertainment and restrict their shopping to the essentials.
Respondents who lived in urban areas were less likely than their rural counterparts to report that they would avoid entertainment venues and restrict their shopping to the essentials, although the differences were not large (Table 4).
If you can restrict grocery shopping to every other week, even better!
