Central Lake marijuana sales proposal fails

CENTRAL LAKE — With a vote of 183-107, as the only other issue on the ballot besides the presidential primary election, voters within the village of Central Lake failed to pass a ballot proposal Tuesday that, if approved, would have allowed retail marijuana processors and sales outlets.

The question of allowing marijuana businesses, which are now present in other northern Michigan municipalities such as Kalkaska and Traverse City, arose last year when local business person Kelly Young asked the Central Lake Village Council for a variance on the village's ordinance against allowing marijuana businesses.

Young, who has a business selling non-hallucinogenic CBD oil, has said that she would like to open two buildings she owns on State Street in Central Lake as marijuana establishments — one for retail sales, the other as an education and awareness center. 

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