While Wayne County has dominated the medical marijuana market in metro Detroit —with 26 licensed dispensaries in Detroit, three in River Rouge, one in Inkster and two in Wayne — Oakland and Macomb counties have been slower to embrace the legal weed market.
The two shops in Ferndale, along with Greenhouse in Walled Lake, are the only three shops north of 8 Mile in metro Detroit so far. A third dispensary in Ferndale — the Green Buddha, a few blocks away from Liv on Hilton — also recently received a license from the state, but it hasn’t opened yet.
Macomb County has no dispensaries yet, although some communities, such as Harrison Township, have agreed to let grow and processing facilities within their boundaries. The township decided to allow marijuana businesses that wouldn’t be open to the public.
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