Marijuana is on the ballot, again, in 4 metro Detroit communities

Kathleen Gray | Detroit Free Press

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Voters in 10 Michigan communities, including four in metro Detroit, will cast ballots Tuesday on whether to allow marijuana businesses into their towns.

In Oakland and Wayne counties, Keego Harbor, Walled Lake, Allen Park and Lincoln Park will consider ballot proposals that would allow marijuana businesses in their towns.

The Keego Harbor City Council adopted an ordinance prohibiting legal weed shops from locating in the city, but citizens gathered enough signatures to put the issue on the ballot. The proposal would allow four medical marijuana dispensaries and four recreational retail stores.

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In Walled Lake, voters will consider allowing eight recreational marijuana retailers in the city.

In Allen Park, a proposal to allow three marijuana retailers and three micro businesses — which allow for growing, processing and selling up to 150 plants — as well as licenses for consumption spaces and special events where marijuana can be consumed will be considered by voters.

And in Lincoln Park, voters will consider a proposal that would allow for two medical and two recreational marijuana shops and one license each for growers, processors, testing facilities, secure transporters and micro businesses.

Other cities voting on allowing in marijuana businesses are Mount Pleasant and Hudson in Lenawee County.

And voters in South Haven in southwest Michigan, Northfield Township (north of Ann Arbor), Marenisco Township in the Upper Peninsula and Crystal Township in mid-Michigan’s Montcalm County will see a proposal to prohibit marijuana businesses on Tuesday’s ballot.

Most of the communities that have had ballot proposals on marijuana proposals — Highland Park, Royal Oak Township, Crystal Lake and Vanderbilt — have voted to prohibit the businesses. The city of Pontiac was the exception when voters last year passed a proposal by one vote that would allow up to 20 marijuana dispensaries and an unlimited number of other marijuana businesses into the city.

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