The Detroit City Council is expected to vote on an ordinance next week that will prohibit recreational marijuana businesses in the city until at least Jan. 31, 2020.
The state’s Marijuana Regulatory Agency will begin accepting applications Friday for recreational marijuana businesses and could start awarding licenses before the end of the year.
But Detroit could become one of the many, many communities in Michigan — 1,201 so far — to prohibit marijuana businesses. The prohibition will be temporary, however, as the details of the city’s recreational ordinance are hammered out, the city’s chief assistant corporation counsel, Kim James, said.
City officials also are finalizing their social equity program, designed by the state to give a leg up to cities and some marijuana business owners who have been hard hit by the war on drugs. Under it, an unspecified number of recreational marijuana licenses will be set aside for city residents who qualify as eligible for social equity assistance, James said.
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