Detroit’s revised adult-use marijuana ordinance has provoked yet another lawsuit, this time from a hopeful MJ business owner and a company that operates multiple medical cannabis dispensaries in the city.
According to the Detroit Free Press, plaintiffs Arden Kassab, an aspiring cannabis entrepreneur, and PharmaCo, a subsidiary of marijuana multistate operator Red White & Bloom, want the court to halt the city’s application process for limited retail, microbusiness and consumption lounge licenses.
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The plaintiffs:
Allege that the licenses are being unfairly allocated to longtime residents. Want Detroit to create a new ordinance, which would be the city’s third.
The current ordinance, which was passed in April, allocates half the limited licenses to candidates who qualify under the social equity program and includes longtime residents of the city and neighboring communities that have been disproportionately impacted by the war on drugs.
The city of Pontiac is
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