What could possibly go wrong? It already did!!-----Residents sound off on medical marijuana dispensaries at Detroit Planning Commission hearing

Residents sound off on medical marijuana dispensaries at Detroit Planning Commission hearing - Crain's Detroit Business:
More than 300 showed up at a Detroit Planning Commission public hearing at the Thursday night at the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center to hear about and voice their opinion on a city zoning ordinance that would put tight restrictions on where medical marijuana dispensaries could locate in the city.
While a few residents who are cancer patients and dispensary owners said they were against the ordinance, the majority of the crowd supported it.
“We support the ordinance and support (Detroit) Councilman James Tate,” said Thomas Wilson Jr., a city resident.
“The way it is going now, we will have more marijuana dispensaries in this city than churches.”
The ordinance was proposed earlier this year by Tate, who believes the lack of rules and regulations governing dispensaries has led to rampant growth of the centers and has added to a feeling of lawlessness.
“Some said we should hold off on this (ordinance) until the state makes changes, but I tried (waiting) last year, and the state did nothing,” Tate said in an earlier interview.
“The issue is you don’t see a proliferation (of dispensaries) anywhere like you do in Detroit.”
Many of the city’s suburbs have passed ordinances to bar medical marijuana dispensaries.
The city has roughly 160 dispensaries, many of them along major thoroughfares.
They frequently open within close proximity to each other.
Tate said his District 1 has 35.
A lack of regulations has caused “the gremlin effect.
Sprinkle water on them and they pop up everywhere,” he said..."