Lawsuit challenges Detroit recreational marijuana shop licensing rules
Detroit’s new ordinance regulating licensing for recreational marijuana shops, which gives preferences to longtime Detroiters, has sparked a lawsuit claiming the rule is unfair and could unravel the city's plans to license stores.
In the suit filed Tuesday in Wayne County Circuit Court, Crystal Lowe, who has lived in Detroit for 11 of the past 30 years, indicates she plans to apply for an adult-use retail establishment license.
However, the city “has almost certainly denied" Lowe's chances to obtain a license because the city's "licensing scheme favors certain Detroit residents over other Michiganders based on the duration of their residency” there, the filing said.