A Michigan Court of Claims Judge is expected to rule today on the state’s medical licensing issues.
Judge Stephen Borrello last week continued a restraining order allowing some temporary marijuana shops to stay open.
He blamed Michigan legislators for failing to address the issue of medical marijuana licensing.
The judge said the current market with licensed and unlicensed facilities forced the state Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs to try to make order out of chaos. Voters approved medical marijuana in 2008.
The hearing before the judge last week, which lasted some four hours, followed continued extensions of a deadline the state had set for temporary pot facilities to get licensed, or risk sanctions to their license applications.
That hearing came on the same day that the Michigan House passed a bill to require the state to suspend a facilities application process if they continue to operate without a license after June 1st.