Legal obstacles facing the rigorous Legacy Detroiter preference program for long-term residents seeking entry into the cannabis industry is picking up steam, a month after a judge dropped two lawsuits challenging the license application process, reported the Detroit Free Press.
Wayne County Circuit Judge Leslie Kim Smith called the city's 2022 marijuana ordinance "a complicated scheme" in an opinion in the first lawsuit filed in May by a group of medical cannabis dispensaries including House of Dank, Herbal Wellness, TJM Enterprises Services and Detroit Natural Selections Enterprises. The judge said that ordinance is unambiguous and provides a fair licensing process, which "comports with the mandates of the [Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act]."
