Detroit has mostly missed out on jobs and tax revenue generated around the state by the sale of adult-use recreational marijuana because it only allows medical marijuana to be sold within city limits.
That could change Tuesday, when the Detroit City Council is expected to vote on a revised recreational marijuana ordinance that could pave the way for recreational marijuana to be grown and sold in Detroit.
The revised ordinance specifies that half of the retail and grower licenses, among others, will go to so-called “equity applicants,” which includes longtime Detroiters and people who live in communities where marijuana-related convictions are greater than the state average.
Applications from legacy Detroiters were processed first in the original ordinance, but a federal judge in June said that ordinance “gives an unfair, irrational and likely unconstitutional advantage to long-term Detroit residents over all other applicants” because, theoretically, longtime Detroiters could have been awarded all of the licenses.
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