Last month the overall plant count also skyrocketed for adult use, jumping from 403,471 adult-use plants in production in May 2021 to 1,126,881 adult use plants in May 2022.
Industry experts like CannaBizIL executive director Pamela Althoff says May’s slight sales decrease isn’t a sign of bad things to come, but likely because workers returning to the office are consuming less cannabis than they would in the privacy of their own homes.
This is Detroit’s second attempt at creating an adult use licensing process. The first Detroit ordinance was struck down by a federal judge last year.
“Deli style” display and sales puts flower in glass containers, allowing consumers to examine its condition before making a purchase.
In some states, the energy cost of growing one ounce of cannabis indoors can be roughly the same as burning 7 to 16 gallons of gasoline.
JARS claims that once adult use licenses are fully distributed, adult use businesses would outnumber medical facilities 6-1, creating a “death sentence” for medical provisioning centers.
Labs in Michigan must test for 60 different pesticides, 7 types of metal, foreign matter, potency, THC levels, and 41 different terpenes as required by the Cannabis Regulatory Agency.
Detroit’s April ordinance was its second attempt at legalizing adult use sales after a federal judge struck down the first ordinance in 2021.
The new ordinance does not explicitly prohibit businesses from applying for recreational licenses in Detroit outright, the suit claims that it would make it very difficult to survive without a recreational license to compete adequately within the five-year period.
“When we look at diversity of ownership, we aren’t in place to see they are reflective of the state overall and we hope to change that,” Brisbo said.
