NEWS
Though the East Lansing City Council spent nearly a year working toward an ordinance regulating commercial distribution of medical marijuana in the city, some believe the work should continue.
Some East Lansing residents formally have requested council reconsider its vote on a recently passed ordinance, which allows for the presence of medical marijuana dispensaries in primarily office districts within the city limits, East Lansing City Manager Ted Staton said.
“I don’t know what will come of it, but there are people out there encouraging council to think again,” Staton said.
The ordinance was passed at the council’s March 15 meeting in a 4-1 vote.
East Lansing resident Ralph Monsma, one citizen championing the move to reconsider the ordinance, said many properties potentially could be available to medical marijuana dispensaries, but from the restrictions given in the ordinance, it was hard to understand what properties were
eligible.
“It’s very difficult to figure out how they could pick which one of those things could be approved — a lot of the guidelines aren’t figured out yet,” Monsma said.
Monsma said he and the other concerned citizens involved — most of whom reside in the Pinecrest neighborhood north of MSU campus, near B4 districts affected by the ordinance — believe the document was difficult to understand for everyone involved and should be worked on before more action is taken.
“It just has to be clearer and it has to be more workable,” Monsma said.
