Grand Rapids will not delay the acceptance of recreational marijuana business applications and won’t freeze the ongoing medical marijuana application process.
The 4-2 decision Tuesday evening, Feb. 25, by Grand Rapids city commissioners is a reversal of a vote they made at a committee meeting just 12 hours earlier to put a six-month moratorium on those applications.
City commissioners, however, failed to reach a consensus on what next steps to take on the proposed marijuana rules before them. The rules would allow recreational marijuana businesses in the city and tweak some existing medical marijuana regulations.
It was not immediately clear what’s next for those proposed rules, which were unanimously approved by the planning commission and need to be in place for the city to begin accepting recreational marijuana applications on the target date of April 20.
The moratorium, proposed by Third Ward City Commissioner Senita Lenear, would have frozen the 14 medical marijuana facility applications currently awaiting planning commission approval. It would not change the status of the 24 medical marijuana facilities already approved.
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