A group of Detroit marijuana operators are suing the city for revoking a business license years after it was granted and only after they’d invested $15 million in a cultivation operation.
According to a complaint initially filed Nov. 9 in Wayne County, Michigan, but then moved to federal court, Detroit officials granted the would-be business operators a series of permits to run a marijuana cultivation and processing facility beginning in 2020.
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The operators – identified in court documents as Cannabis Professional Design, MB City Transportation, HZ Detroit Holdings 1 and HZ Detroit Holdings 2 – purchased an industrial property and commenced improvements.
All was well and a certificate of occupancy was granted in September 2023, only for city officials to inform the businesses on Oct. 27 that the property was within 1,000 feet of a charter school and that the license would therefore be revoked,
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