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Andrew Brisbo, director at Michigan\u2019s Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) \u2013 Bureau of Marijuana Regulation, speaks at the 2019 Michigan Municipal League Capital Conference.<\/p><\/div>\n

We had a really nice, informative discussion with the person who is in charge of regulating marijuana in Michigan. The League\u2019s Jennifer Rigterink and myself, recorded our Michigan Politics, Huh? podcast<\/a> at our Capital Conference last week with Andrew Brisbo, director at Michigan\u2019s Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) \u2013 Bureau of Marijuana Regulation. Listen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Brisbo, a fellow Central Michigan University graduate, was a pleasure to talk with and at just over 15-minutes long, the podcast is well worth your time.<\/p>\n

He explains the recreational marijuana law that was approved by voters in November, what Michigan communities need to do to prepare, and whether or not his agency will be ready by a Dec. 6, 2019, deadline to start licensing business. The short answer to that last question is \u201cyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

A key issue facing Michigan\u2019s cities, villages and townships right now on this topic is whether or not to opt-out of wanting marijuana businesses in their communities. Many communities, Brisbo explained, are deciding to opt out until his agency comes up with the rules and regulations. Of the 1,773 communities in the state, so far 320 have notified LARA that they are opting-out at this time. He added a community that opts-out can choose at a later date to opt back in.<\/p>\n

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Podcasting booth at the 2019 Michigan Municipal League Capital Conference.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re talking about a somewhat political divisive issue still,\u201d Brisbo said. \u201cA lot of communities don\u2019t have concern with citizens having access and possessing marijuana, but it\u2019s a completely different ballgame when you\u2019re talking about having a commercial facility to grow or process or sell marijuana at retail.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brisbo said his agency is starting now to \u201cput pen to paper\u201d in drafting the rules and regulations for the industry and he\u2019s quite optimistic they will \u201cabsolutely\u201d be done by the December deadline. He said the fact that medical marijuana has been legal in Michigan for several years has better prepared his agency for recreational marijuana.<\/p>\n

The biggest issue his agency is faced with now is the misinformation that\u2019s out there about the emerging industry. He said the best source of reliable, factual information is his agency and there is a girth of information available at Michigan.gov\/bmr. For issues specific to the marijuana laws and Michigan Municipal League member communities, check out the MML marijuana resource page here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[73,310,352,355,388,495],"class_list":["post-6586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-andrew-brisbo","tag-jennifer-rigterink","tag-marijuana","tag-matt-bach","tag-michigan-municipal-league","tag-recreational-marijuana","mml-onemagnify-plugin"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhat You Need to Know About Recreational Marijuana in Michigan - 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