Owning a cannabis business in Metro Detroit is proving to be challenging.
Steve Neavling of Metro Times reports:
Since January 2024, at least 53 cannabis businesses in Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties have been burglarized, according to records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and interviews with cannabis business owners. Of those, 40 were in Detroit. Hazel Park has been hit hard too, with at least six break-ins, making it the second hardest-hit city in the region.
The tactics are growing more aggressive. In the first three months of this year alone, at least 22 cannabis businesses were burglarized — 16 of them in Detroit. In about half of those, thieves used trucks to smash through buildings. Most got away.
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