Voters here have experienced what it’s like to have recreational marijuana businesses in their city and decided that they want to continue on that path.
A ballot proposal that would have outlawed dispensaries and other recreational marijuana businesses in the city was soundly defeated in the election on Tuesday, Nov. 2, according to unofficial results from the Lapeer County Clerk’s Office.
The proposal was defeated by more than a 2-to-1 margin — 1,137 to 405.
Lapeer city commissioners had opted into allowing up to six recreational marijuana dispensaries in Lapeer after Michigan voters approved a 2018 referendum allowing it, but Dan Osentoski, a former city commissioner who died suddenly in September, spearheaded an effort to let voters decide through the ballot question.
Story contributed by MLIVE