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The Michigan Marijuana Facilities Licensing Act allows for communities to decide for themselves whether the allow marijuana businesses and which types of businesses. The communities then license the types of businesses.
Different Types of Marijuana Business Licenses
There are several different kinds of licenses:
Growing: License A – 500 plants, License B – 1,000 plants, License C – 1,500 plants
Dispensaries – referred to as provisioning centers
Secure Transporters – they do what it sounds like
Processing Centers – Makes edibles
Safety Compliance Centers – Makes sure the weed is top notch
Michigan Cities Allowing Marijuana Business Licenses
Here is a list of the largest Michigan cities that allow marijuana businesses and what kinds of licenses. Note that this is not a comprehensive list of all cities license marijuana businesses, it is simply a list of the largest cities and townships that currently do so. There are many more smaller communities that will allow licenses, and the list will probably grow in the coming year and if/when marijuana becomes legal for recreational use.
Ann Arbor
- No Cap on any Licenses
Battle Creek
- No Caps on any Licenses
Bay City
- Grower – Class A: 25
- Grower- Class B: 25
- Grower – Class C: 25
- Processor: 25
- Dispensaries: 50
- Safety Compliance Facilities: 25
- Secure Transporters: 25
Center Line
- Grower – Class A: 5
- Grower- Class B: 5
- Grower – Class C: 5
- Processor: 15
- Dispensaries: 15
- Safety Compliance Facilities: 15
- Secure Transporters: 15
Detroit
- Dispensaries: 75
- Unspecified amount in other license categories
East Lansing
- No Caps in Licenses in any Category
Ferndale
- Dispensaries: 3
- Safety Compliance Facilities: 1
Flint
- Grower – Class A: No cap
- Grower- Class B: No cap
- Grower – Class C: No Cap
- Processor: No cap
- Dispensaries: 20
- Safety Compliance Facilities: 5
- Secure Transporters: 5
Inkster
- Dispensaries: 3
- No caps in any other license categories
Garden City
- No Caps on licenses in any category
Grand Rapids
- Secure Transporters: 53
- Total of 83 between Grower A,B,C, Processors, Secure Transporters, Safety Compliance Facilities
Hazel Park
- Grower – Class A: 3
- Grower- Class B: 3
- Grower – Class C: 3
- Processor: 3
- Dispensaries: 3
- Safety Compliance Facilities: 3
- Secure Transporters: 3
Kalamazoo
- No Caps on any Licenses
Lansing
- Dispensaries: 25
- No caps in other categories
Lansing Charter Township
- Grower – Class A: 1
- Grower- Class B: 0
- Grower – Class C: 0
- Processor: 0
- Dispensaries: 0
- Safety Compliance Facilities: 2
- Secure Transporters: 0
Lapeer
- No Caps on any Licenses
Mt. Pleasant
- Grower – Class A: 5
- Grower- Class B and C: Total of 3 between them
- Processor: No cap
- Dispensaries: 3
- Safety Compliance Facilities: No cap
- Secure Transporters: No cap
Muskegon
- No Caps on any Licenses
Orion Charter Township
- Grower – Class C: 6
- Processor: 2
- “Safety Compliance Facilities”: 2
- Secure Transporters: 2
River Rouge
- Grower: Total of 4 between A,B,C
- Processor: 4
- Dispensaries 7
- Secure Transporters: 1
Walled Lake
- Grower: Total of 3 (unspecified)
- Processor: 3
- Dispensaries: 3
- Safety Compliance Facilities: 2
- Secure Transporters: 3
Warren
- Dispensaries: 5
- Unspecified number of other licenses
Ypsilanti
- Grower: Total of 3 between A,B,C
- Processor: 3
- Dispensaries: 7
Contact us
Call Sam Bernstein at 734-883-9584 or e-mail at bernstein@arborypsilaw.com.
Sam Bernstein is an Ann Arbor Lawyer focusing on criminal defense and marijuana.
ArborYpsi Law is located at 2750 Carpenter Rd #2, Ann Arbor, MI 48108.
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