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I'm just happy someone's setting up in this storefront. No business seems to survive in the building longer than a year or two. This type of business will definitely have a longer self-life. And right across the street is a seasonal ice cream shop.

Checking things out: Danny Trevino calls Lansing police on Tuesday after they left a note at the storefront in north Lansing that he uses as a medical marijuana dispensary.

Medical marijuana shop a Lansing first

Scott Davis • [email protected] • April 21, 2010

n a storefront in Lansing's Old Town, Darryl Brija waits patiently in a chair while Rochelle Harris checks his driver's license and measures out a quarter-ounce of marijuana.

Brija, 52, of Potterville, hands over $90 in cash. Harris hands him the plastic bag of marijuana, which Brija slips into his jacket pocket.

The transaction is business as usual at Lansing's first official medical marijuana dispensary, which might test the limits of the state's medicinal marijuana law.

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Danny Trevino, a Lansing man who sells marijuana-growing equipment at Hydro World in Lansing, opened the dispensary at 407 E. Grand River Ave.

Mid-Michigan marijuana advocates say dispensaries have been operating informally out of a few Lansing homes for months, but Trevino's business marks the first official one in the city.

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In other news, the median sale price for housing in the metro is back up over $100,000.

Lansing-area home sales up in March

Home sales in the Lansing area surged in March as the homebuyer tax credit neared its end. There were 459 homes sold in Ingham, Eaton and Clinton counties and some surrounding areas in March, up 29 percent from the 356 sold a year earlier, according to the Greater Lansing Association of Realtors. The average sale price was $102,541, up 20 percent from $85,468 a year ago. The tax credit expires April 30.