In the summer, the board in mostly rural Niles Township gave a preliminary OK to 21 cannabis stores along one road currently dotted with businesses and surrounded by farmland.

On Nov. 4, voters rejected them all .

Nearly 6 in 10 voters in the township along Michigan’s border with Indiana approved a ballot measure prohibiting any cannabis stores from opening there. Many residents said they didn’t want to see their township look like the rest of Berrien County, where 27 pot shops operate, including seven in the neighboring city of Niles.

That vote – and another on Nov. 4 limiting marijuana stores in the Upper Peninsula city of Menominee , along the Wisconsin border – come at a time of uncertainty for Michigan’s cannabis industry.

Pot has proliferated across Michigan – there are now

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