The allegations that Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia solicited bribes from marijuana businesses seeking to open in the city have caused renewed debate over whether changes are needed to the state’s marijuana laws to minimize the potential for corruption.

On Monday, Gov. Charlie Baker said the way the marijuana law was set up is “not that unusual” relative to how communities typically do permitting and zoning.

But, he added, “If there are things about the way this is set up that are significantly different that the way we typically organize or provide a framework for locals to make decisions around permitting and planning decisions, that’s certainly something that we should consider.”

Baker said he anticipates taking his lead from the Cannabis Control Commission regarding whether there are changes that should be made.

Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz, D-Boston, Senate chair of the Joint Committee on Cannabis Policy, noted that the potential for personal corruption “is in the nature of having an executive branch, not just where marijuana policy is concerned.”

“There are always going to be a lot of things and issues and decisions over which a chief executive or the executive branch more broadly is going to have decision-making power,” she said.

Chang-Diaz said the Fall River case will be one data point that she will be looking at when considering future marijuana policy.

Correia, a Democrat, was arrested Friday on multiple counts of bribery, extortion conspiracy, wire fraud and filing false tax returns. Prosecutors say the charges involve schemes to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars from marijuana businesses that wanted to work with the southeastern Massachusetts city. Correia allegedly pocketed the money, telling vendors he was only issuing five or six non-opposition letters. He then blocked the city council’s efforts to limit the number of marijuana businesses that can set up shop in the city.

U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling, who brought the charges, said the current system of requiring a marijuana business to get a letter of non-opposition from the city or town leader “creates an enormous amount of temptation.”

“You have a situation where local authorities, local mayors, could be sorely tempted to make some kind of bribe or extort some kind of payment in exchange for a letter,” Lelling said Friday. “And that single letter can be the ticket to a marijuana dispensary opening a very lucrative business.”

Massachusetts Inspector General Glenn Cunha said he hopes Correia’s indictment “will prompt the Cannabis Control Commission, the Legislature and other stakeholders to evaluate what additional safeguards or reforms are necessary.”

The Cannabis Control Commission said in a statement that the agency “will monitor any ongoing investigation to protect the integrity of the Commonwealth’s licensing process for Marijuana Establishments and Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers.”

Currently, a medical marijuana dispensary seeking a license must get a letter of non-opposition from the host community. This is meant to ensure that the dispensary complies with local codes and bylaws.

For a recreational license, a marijuana business must negotiate a host community agreement with the municipality, which lays out the terms, including financial payments, that the business must meet in order to open in that community.

Host community agreements have been a focus of attention recently for policymakers. The Cannabis Control Commission has been outspoken in asking the Legislature for the authority to review host community agreements.

Many advocates for the marijuana industry have said communities are going beyond the terms set out in state law, which limit the size of community impact fees that a marijuana business can be required to pay. Many agreements require companies to pay additional money, for example through mandatory donations or other fees. But commissioners have said they do not believe they have authority to regulate the terms of host community agreements. The commission wants the Legislature to change that.

After Correia’s indictment, cannabis consultant Jim Borghesani, a former spokesman for the marijuana legalization campaign, said, “I hope that this egregious example does not eclipse the similar financial shakedowns on the cannabis industry present in nearly every Host Community Agreement signed to date in Massachusetts.”

Several bills to give the Cannabis Control Commission authority are pending before the Legislature’s cannabis policy committee. Chang-Diaz said this is a topic her committee has already “highly prioritized,” holding a hearing in July. The host community agreement issue, she said, is one the committee “has been actively looking at well before the indictment came to light and we’ll continue to be working actively on.”

House chair of the Committee on Cannabis Policy, Rep. David Rogers, D-Cambridge, did not respond to requests for comment.

Baker declined to take a position on whether the commission should be granted additional authority, noting only that it has been a “source of discussion and debate.”

House Speaker Robert DeLeo, D-Winthrop, and Senate President Karen Spilka, D-Ashland, both said they were unaware of specific legislation filed on behalf of the Cannabis Control Commission. “Right now, there’s nothing really before us to consider,” DeLeo said.