In July 2021, the average retail price of an ounce of retail marijuana flower for adults was $218. Michigan marijuana prices and yields have plummeted since the market hit in December 2019. The employee said the reason for the store’s closure was a lack of revenue. The employee asked that their name not be used in this story due to concerns about future employment and the possibility of violating a confidentiality clause in their employment contract. The Google business pages for the Christmas and Bay City locations listed “permanently closed,” the Southfield location listed as “temporarily closed,” and there were no Google business results for Cheboygan.Ī former employee at one store said employees were notified Monday that they were being laid off because of the store’s closing. On the topic: “I love downtown,” says the manager of Bay City Lume “Thank you for calling Lume Cannabis Company, cannabis in a new light,” said a voice recording as the phone numbers for each of the closed locations were dialed. Lume lists 29 other stores that are actively open.
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As of Monday, July 11, there were no more places listed on the Lume website and pages that were formally intended for stores now lead to error pages. “We are excited to open our 10th store, which will allow us to meet the needs of the cannabis community in Mackinaw City and the surrounding communities,” Hellyar added.Michigan-based marijuana retail giant Lume Cannabis Co., which operates nearly 30 stores across the state, has closed four of them.Ĭlosed stores include: Bay City, Christmas, Cheboygan and Southfield. Hellyar also said his company looks forward to introducing the Lume brand to Mackinaw City residents and visitors starting this weekend. It also has retail stores in Adrian, Big Rapids, Evart, Honor, Kalamazoo, Negaunee, Owosso and Walled Lake. Lume is a privately held, vertically integrated cannabis company which produces cannabis products for medical patients and recreational consumers. “Lume offers an unmatched variety of high-quality cannabis products, including more than 20 strains of high-quality Lume flower and our line of effects-based Lume cartridges that we look forward to introducing to customers at our Petoskey store.” “Our company has prepared for this day for a long time, and we are excited to meet the needs of recreational cannabis community in Petoskey and the surrounding communities,” Hellyar said. The communities’ decisions followed a 2018 Michigan ballot measure which legalized marijuana for recreational use at the state level. “They are allowed to do what they want and we understand that,” Wyman said.Īs of press time, attempts to reach Odawa tribal chair Regina Gasco Bentley for comment on Lume’s operations were unsuccessful.īear Creek Township and Mackinaw City were among more than 400 Michigan communities which opted out of the marijuana marketplace last year, while another 139 passed ordinances providing for marijuana-related enterprises to operate. Wyman noted the village has a fairly positive relationship with the tribe. I have to explain it and they seem to understand every time I do that.” We get calls almost daily from companies wanting to know why they are allowed to do that and the company (that) is calling is not.
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“We have opted out in both medical and recreational marijuana in the past.
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“Once it becomes in trust, it becomes a sovereign area within our village limits which means they do not have to comply with any of our ordinances or restrictions or anything like that,” Wyman said. Patrick Wyman, village manager in Mackinaw City, said village officials have no control over the Lume store in that community, at 1020 S.