Pontiac’s recreational marijuana push upended

Ballot e ort halts long-in-works rollout

BY DUSTIN WALSH

Recreational marijuana has been upended, again, in Pontiac. e city’s recreational marijuana industry was set to begin in July with the opening of its license application process. But a group backed by some of the city’s medical marijuana license holders, who are likely to be shut out of the recreational licensing, has halted that process with a ballot referendum.

Sensible Cannabis Reform for Pontiac submitted two petitions earlier this month with the necessary signatures to put a measure on that ballot that voters could vote to repeal the city’s current recreational marijuana ordinance and repeal its related zoning ordinance.

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