It was on Monday that Kalamazoo Michigan’s City Commission voted unanimously to approve amendments to sections of zoning ordinances to allow a process that will open five types of medical marijuana facilities.
The amendments will also allow regulating where they can do business and bring city rules in line with the state’s law regarding caregivers.
Each of the five medical marijuana facilities will need to receive permits from the city as well as a license from the state before they can open.
The ordinances take effect on April 12th and Scott Borling, the City Clerk, will have 35 days to announce when his office will start to accept permit applications.
“We have done a lot of work trying to educate the community (on) cannabis as medicine,” said Jevin Weyenberg, who owns Lake Effect Marijuana Dispensary in Portage. “These are first and foremost, and always will be, health care related ordinances.”
