Cherry Hill Cannabis Guide: Westland, Michigan

Westland took its name from the shopping mall that opened here in 1965 and gave a fast-growing township an identity it did not previously have. The city of roughly 84,000 grew out of Nankin Township into a grid of postwar subdivisions and apartment complexes, with the Norwayne district still standing as some of the original World War II defense-worker housing built for the Willow Run and Rouge plant workforce. Ford Road and Wayne Road carry the commercial life of the place.

On cannabis, Westland went the other way from most of its neighbors. Chapter 27 of the city code allows up to eight marijuana business locations, two of them reserved for stand-alone retailer or provisioning-center licenses - one north of Ford Road, one south. The city ran its first application window in 2020 and a second in 2022, and is not accepting new applications now. Local rules are stricter than the state floor: stores may open to the public only between 10 a.m. and 9 p.m., no drive-through windows are permitted, on-site consumption is banned, and no location may sit within 1,000 feet of a school or 250 feet of residentially zoned property.

The result is two licensed stores, both on Ford Road. LIV Cannabis operates at 37655 Ford Road and The Micro Clinic at 39123 Ford Road, about a mile and a half apart on the same commercial stretch north of the city center. That matters well beyond Westland's borders, because Livonia to the north, Canton to the west and Garden City to the east all host no cannabis retail at all - which turns this stretch of Ford Road into the nearest licensed counter for a large slice of western Wayne County.

Michigan voters approved the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act in November 2018, and the first adult-use sales rang up on December 1, 2019. Seven years on, this is one of the largest legal markets in the country: licensed stores moved roughly $1.48 billion in adult-use product in the first six months of 2026 alone, and the all-time total passed $16.5 billion by the end of June. Michigan also does something few mature markets manage - it stays cheap. Cannabis Regulatory Agency figures put the average adult-use ounce of flower at $59.85 in February 2026 and $58.18 in June, the lowest statewide average in the nation.

Buying is simple. Bring a government ID showing you are 21, walk into any CRA-licensed retailer, and pay. No residency requirement, no registry, no card. The catch is geography: roughly three-quarters of Michigan's municipalities opted out of hosting cannabis businesses, so stores bunch heavily into the communities that said yes - Detroit, Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Bay City, Traverse City, the Indiana-border strip around New Buffalo - while whole tiers of suburbs have none. Possession is capped at 2.5 ounces on your person and 10 ounces at home, with anything past 2.5 ounces stored in a locked container. Adults may grow up to 12 plants per residence out of public view.

Taxes are what changed. On top of the original 10% adult-use excise and Michigan's 6% sales tax, House Bill 4951 - the Comprehensive Road Funding Tax Act signed October 7, 2025 - added a 24% excise tax on wholesale transfers of adult-use marijuana starting January 1, 2026. Growers and processors pay it before product ever reaches a shelf, and shoppers absorb it in the retail price. Retail prices still fell year over year, but license counts and store closures moved the wrong way, and by August 2026 both chambers in Lansing had repeal bills on file.

Michigan has a deep bench of homegrown brands, which matters more here than in states dominated by out-of-state operators. Lume Cannabis Co. is the biggest vertically integrated name in the state, though its house-grown flower is sold only inside its own roughly forty stores rather than on other retailers' shelves. Grasshopper Farms grows sun-grown outdoor flower on acreage near Paw Paw and prices accordingly. Mitten Extracts and MKX Oil Co. are two of the most widely stocked vape lines on Michigan shelves. Redemption Cannabis donates a share of revenue to cannabis-conviction relief work and sells statewide. Common Citizen and Glorious Cannabis Co. round out the flower and concentrate categories in most larger stores. Ask what was harvested most recently rather than what has the highest number printed on the jar.

Three things define Michigan cannabis in 2026. First, the 24% wholesale tax that landed January 1 has not raised what lawmakers promised - collections ran roughly $70 million behind pace in the first third of the fiscal year - which is why Senate Bill 810 was filed in February and House Bill 6224 followed in August. Second, the market is consolidating: monthly sales have held near $250 million, but active retail licenses and store counts are declining for the first time since 2019 as thin margins push weaker operators out. Third, on-site consumption is still a three-venue market - Hazel Park, Kalkaska and Kalamazoo - though Detroit has authorized up to 35 lounge licenses of its own. Shoppers are searching by price per ounce and by store rather than by brand.