Michigan orders over 200 medical cannabis dispensaries to shut down
At the beginning of the month, 40 medical cannabis dispensaries in Michigan received cease-and-desist letters from the state demanding their immediate closure. At the time, state regulators promised that hundreds more dispensaries would be closing1, and this week it happened; over 200 dispensaries in the state, most located in Detroit, have now received the same letter telling them to shut down or risk being arrested. Many of these shops opened and operated under Michigan’s lightly-regulated “medical cannabis program,” passed in 2008. But in 2016 a new law was passed to “reign in the industry” and it included stricter regulations on canna-businesses and...
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