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Marijuana dispensaries on the ballot in some Metro Detroit cities

Voters in several Metro Detroit communities, including Birmingham, Keego Harbor, and Rochester, will vote to decide whether marijuana dispensaries should be allowed in the cities.

TUESDAY NEWS HIT – Some voters are deciding on whether marijuana stores should be allowed in their cities.

Several cities have proposals to allow the addition of stores that sell marijuana. If approved, these businesses will be regulated and must be at least 1,000 feet away from schools and churches. They will only be allowed after going through an application and licensing process.

Voters in Birmingham will decide on a measure that would allow one recreational use store and one medical marijuana store. In Keego Harbor, voters will decide on an ordinance that would allow two businesses, as will voters in Grosse Pointe Park. A ballot proposal in Rochester would allow for three marijuana businesses.

Polls open for Tuesday’s election

Across Michigan, voters are heading to the polls Tuesday.

Though voters aren’t electing a new president or governor this year, there are dozens of local elections for local leaders and ordinance changes. 

In Warren, voters will select a

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In most states with legal cannabis, retail licensees are hot commodities. Licenses are typically limited, and the competition for them can be fierce. For those who are new to the cannabis industry, the licensure process can be overwhelming. How do you know what regulators are looking for? What makes a successful dispensary application stand out from the rest?

After analyzing several winning dispensary applications, we found six unifying qualities. From thorough business plans to community support, keep reading to learn how to complete the best dispensary application possible.

Check the boxes First, Then Enhance

Anyone considering applying for a cannabis retail license should give themselves plenty of time. Becoming an operator can be an arduous journey and successful dispensary applications often require a ton of information. Some details may take longer to flush out, meaning you want to start as early as possible.

“One of the biggest mistakes potential licensees make is procrastinating,” says Shannon O’Mara of Higher Yield Consulting, specialists in dispensary applications. “There are often many long-lead items that applicants need to prepare for, such as securing real estate; obtaining finances and investors to fund the application/license; identifying partners early on like POS software and security providers to

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CHICAGO and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — RISE Dispensaries, a rapidly growing cannabis retail chain owned by Green Thumb Industries Inc. (“Green Thumb” or “the Company”) (CSE: GTII) (OTCQX: GTBIF), today announced that RISE Dispensary Clearwater, the Company’s 11th retail location in Florida and 87th nationwide, will open on November 10. RISE Dispensary Clearwater will welcome patients with a grand opening celebration and ribbon-cutting ceremony on November 17, where profits from the day will be donated to Minorities for Medical Marijuana (M4MM). M4MM is a purpose-driven nonprofit organization that provides education and programs to build a more accessible and equitable cannabis industry.

“As we continue to expand our footprint in Florida, we are thrilled to join the Clearwater community,” said Green Thumb President Anthony Georgiadis. “We look forward to introducing more patients to the RISE experience and providing access to high-quality cannabis products that will help improve their well-being.”

Green Thumb joined the Florida community in 2018 and operates two production facilities in Ocala and Homestead where the Company produces its branded products. Green Thumb’s cultivation and manufacturing practices reflect the highest quality standards to ensure all its products offer a true-to-plant, consistent experience. The Company’s

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CHICAGO and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — RISE Dispensaries, a rapidly growing cannabis retail chain owned by Green Thumb Industries Inc. (“Green Thumb” or “the Company”) (CSE: GTII) (OTCQX: GTBIF), today announced that RISE Dispensary Clearwater, the Company’s 11th retail location in Florida and 87th nationwide, will open on November 10. RISE Dispensary Clearwater will welcome patients with a grand opening celebration and ribbon-cutting ceremony on November 17, where profits from the day will be donated to Minorities for Medical Marijuana (M4MM). M4MM is a purpose-driven nonprofit organization that provides education and programs to build a more accessible and equitable cannabis industry.

“As we continue to expand our footprint in Florida, we are thrilled to join the Clearwater community,” said Green Thumb President Anthony Georgiadis. “We look forward to introducing more patients to the RISE experience and providing access to high-quality cannabis products that will help improve their well-being.”

Green Thumb joined the Florida community in 2018 and operates two production facilities in Ocala and Homestead where the Company produces its branded products. Green Thumb’s cultivation and manufacturing practices reflect the highest quality standards to ensure all its products offer a true-to-plant, consistent experience. The Company’s retail brand,

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Marijuana dispensaries on the ballot in some Metro Detroit cities

Voters in several Metro Detroit communities, including Birmingham, Keego Harbor, and Rochester, will vote to decide whether marijuana dispensaries should be allowed in the cities.

BIRMINGHAM, Mich. (FOX 2) – When Metro Detroiters head to the polls Tuesday, some will be deciding if marijuana dispensaries should be allowed in their city.

Several cities have proposals to allow the addition of stores that sell marijuana. If approved, these businesses will be regulated and must be at least 1,000 feet away from schools and churches. They will only be allowed after going through an application and licensing process. 

Voters in Birmingham will decide on a measure that would allow one recreational use store and one medical marijuana store. In Keego Harbor, voters will decide on an ordinance that would allow two businesses, as will voters in Grosse Pointe Park. A ballot proposal in Rochester would allow for three marijuana businesses.

Since laws allowing adult-use marijuana facilities went into effect nearly five years ago, hundreds of municipalities have opted out of having these businesses. However, the number of municipalities allowing marijuana businesses continues to steadily rise, according to data

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Takeaways:
1. Workers at the Homestate Dispensary have voted to establish the first cannabis union in the area in the Kansas City market. 
2. Homestate employees have complained about not receiving paid holidays and a lack of security in the workplace. They want better pay, job security, better health insurance and protections from wrongful termination. 
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Ohio voters will decide Tuesday whether to approve a proposed law to legalize recreational marijuana, which would allow people 21 and older to buy, possess and grow recreational marijuana.

Proponents say it will bring in tax dollars that Ohio residents are currently sending to Michigan.

But Michigan dispensary owners are some of the biggest opponents of the proposal, the spokesperson for the group behind the effort to legalize recreational marijuana in Ohio has said.

That’s because it’s widely acknowledged that Ohio residents cross state lines to buy marijuana in Michigan and if it becomes available in Ohio, that could mean fewer customers for Michigan dispensaries, leading to an oversupply of marijuana that could drive prices even lower than what they’ve fallen to in the last few years.

Counting on Ohio customers

There are a slew of dispensaries near the Ohio border. Monroe, Michigan, about a 30-minute drive from Ohio’s fourth-largest city by population, Toledo, has more than a dozen dispensaries. Morenci, Michigan, which shares its southern border with Ohio and has a population of about 2,000, has five recreational marijuana dispensaries.

Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear is up for reelection in red Kentucky.AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File

Off-year elections, with their unpredictable turnout and varying levels of competitiveness, can be imperfect predictors of presidential-year contests.

But this year’s races are stacked with insights for 2024’s presidential election and the looming battle for control of Congress — indicating, for example, whether suburban swing voters will be moved by attempts to restrict abortion access and whether a pair of Southern-state Democrats can outrun an unpopular president.

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Abortion access is the throughline for many of these races. Democrats, encouraged by a winning record for abortion rights since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, made local races in Kentucky, Mississippi and Virginia about abortion access. In Mississippi, Democrats are also calling for Medicaid expansion to shore up a failing rural hospital system, while Republicans — there and elsewhere in the country — seek to make the election a referendum on President Joe Biden, whom a damning new poll showed losing to former President Donald Trump in five key battlegrounds.

Here are the races, including a hotly contested school board race in Virginia and a countywide contest in a Pennsylvania swing county, that are worth

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Residents in Broadview will vote on an ordinance that would ban marijuana sales in the city limits.

From January of 2022, when adult-use sales began through August of this year, the Montana has seen more than 516 million dollars in total sales.

There were more than $24 million total sales in that first month and it hit nearly $29 million dollars in July and August of this year.

Yellowstone County has seen more than $4.5 million in total sales in August of this year, and just under that in July.

Some say agriculture and the school drive the economy in Broadview and at this time, marijuana doesn’t fit.

“We are a rural community,” said Jennifer Adam. “We’re very centered around the school, the children. And then the rest of the community is the ranchers. The thought of having marijuana shops in our town just does not make sense. It does not fit with the community that we already have, and the community that we’re building.”

The proposed ordinance prohibits marijuana businesses which are defined as a cultivator manufacturer, adult use dispensary, medical marijuana dispensary, combined use marijuana licensee testing laboratory, marijuana transporter or any other business or function that is licensed by the Department

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CHICAGO and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — RISE Dispensaries, a rapidly growing cannabis retail chain owned by Green Thumb Industries Inc. (“Green Thumb” or “the Company”) (CSE: GTII) (OTCQX: GTBIF), today announced that RISE Dispensary Clearwater, the Company’s 11th retail location in Florida and 87th nationwide, will open on November 10. RISE Dispensary Clearwater will welcome patients with a grand opening celebration and ribbon-cutting ceremony on November 17, where profits from the day will be donated to Minorities for Medical Marijuana (M4MM). M4MM is a purpose-driven nonprofit organization that provides education and programs to build a more accessible and equitable cannabis industry.

“As we continue to expand our footprint in Florida, we are thrilled to join the Clearwater community,” said Green Thumb President Anthony Georgiadis. “We look forward to introducing more patients to the RISE experience and providing access to high-quality cannabis products that will help improve their well-being.”

Green Thumb joined the Florida community in 2018 and operates two production facilities in Ocala and Homestead where the Company produces its branded products. Green Thumb’s cultivation and manufacturing practices reflect the highest quality standards to ensure all its products offer a true-to-plant, consistent experience. The Company’s retail brand,

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