College-aged students interested in cannabis studies could soon be able to work with marijuana in the classroom setting under a bill currently before the House Regulatory Reform Committee.
House Bill 6061, sponsored by Rep. Kevin Coleman, D-Westland, would amend the state’s Marihuana Act to lower the minimum age to work with the substance in certain capacities from the current age of 21 to 18-years-old.
“Currently, people must be 21 to work in cannabis, and that doesn’t matter if it’s across the science aspect, cultivation, marketing, sales – several aspects to the industry,” Coleman said, when testifying to the legislation back in June.
Impetus for the bill, he added, came when in 2018 Michigan voters enacted the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act via citizen-led petition initiative making it the first state in the Midwest and the tenth state in the nation to legalize marijuana.
At that time, a majority of residents voted to make it legal for adults aged 21 and older to possess, use and grow their own marijuana.
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