Gov. Rick Snyder is well past a March deadline to seat a five-member board that will oversee the licensing of Michigan's soon-to-be commercialized medical marijuana industry.
The hold up, according to Snyder spokeswoman Anna Heaton, is a "thorough vetting" of the candidates, three of whom will be appointed by the governor himself, and two of whom will be recommended by the state's Senate majority leader and House speaker. Heaton says Snyder is trying to ensure that the people he seats to the board are free from conflicts of interest, because "they'll have the power to license and regulate a new industry." Synder, she says, would also like to see different sectors represented on the board, particularly the legal community.…