After Michigan voters approved legalizing marijuana for adult recreational use, many of the state’s cities, townships and villages are not interested.
As part of the Nov. 6 ballot proposal, communities have to vote to ban recreational marijuana businesses in their borders and almost 300 communities across Michigan have voted to prohibit those businesses, according to an unofficial list compiled by the state’s Licensing and Regulatory Affairs Department.
That’s nearly three times as many communities—114 as of this week—that have drafted ordinances to allow medical marijuana businesses. Most of those communities are most likely to also allow recreational marijuana businesses once the state starts licensing those facilities early next year.
