Municipalities have to decide whether or not they want to allow recreational marijuana businesses in their communities by October, when state officials said they plan to start accepting license applications.
As of June 2019, the list of bans is lengthy. Nearly 600 Michigan communities have banned adult-use marijuana businesses in the seven months since 57 percent of Michigan voters said yes to Proposal 1.
About 4.7 million Michigan residents live in a community with a ban, according to an MLive analysis. Municipalities are only able to ban businesses from opening within their bounds — they are not legally able to prohibit marijuana consumption or possession.
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