Indopedia All Things Marijuana
Detroit pot shops are dropping like flies. Since the Motor City added new regulations to their relatively relaxed medical marijuana industry in March of 2016, all of the city’s 283 dispensaries have been operating illegally. In an effort to dwindle that number down to the city mandated 50 fully licensed shops, Detroit officials have been obtaining court orders and putting city padlocks on the doors of pot providers.
According to the Detroit Free Press, an additional 51 dispensaries are in line to meet their demise in coming weeks, while only 5 applicants have been approved to operate under the new regulations.
Most of the issues concerning the new rules have a set of barriers that make it almost impossible to find a suitable dispensary location. According to Detroit corporation counsel Melvin Butch Hollowell, Motor City pot shops aren’t allowed to set up “within a 1,000-foot radius of a church, school, park, liquor store, other dispensaries and other places considered a drug-free zone under city law, such as libraries or child care centers.”
Prospective licensees can apply to the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals to try and work around those strict…
