Aug 31, 2022 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
Two potential roadblocks for the city of Detroit to start processing applications for the limited recreational marijuana licenses were removed Tuesday when a judge dismissed lawsuits that challenged the ordinance. Two lawsuits were filed in recent months from cannabis...
Jul 13, 2022 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
Detroit City Council voted anonymously to approve the opening of applications for limited adult-use licensing for commercial marijuana being sold within retail, microbusiness and as well as consumption in a lounge. Tuesday’s voting by the Detroit City Council approved...
Jun 14, 2022 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
In the two months since the Detroit City Council passed a revised ordinance to allow recreational cannabis businesses within city limits, it has faced a referendum petition to repeal both its medical and recreational ordinance and two lawsuits from current...
May 17, 2022 | Great Lakes Region, Michigan
When Michigan legalized recreational marijuana, Detroit’s leaders set out to ensure that the city’s residents could share in the profits. They passed one of the nation’s most ambitious “social equity” laws, intended to help the Black and Hispanic...
Apr 27, 2022 | Great Lakes Region, Michigan
Christian Perine has had a license with the State of Michigan to open a cannabis consumption lounge for a year. She has a business plan with revenue projections, retail partners lined up to sell cannabis products at her lounge, a website and...