It’s back to the courtroom for a group aiming to overturn controversial new costs for the cannabis industry in Michigan.
Months after a new 24% wholesale tax on marijuana took effect in January, the Michigan Cannabis Industry Association filed a lawsuit alongside other plaintiffs aimed at striking it down. “This is a tax-on-tax ploy that is resulting in consumers getting hit with an effective sales tax rate that is higher than what’s legal,” said MiCIA spokesperson Rose Tantraphol.
This wouldn’t be the MiCIA’s first lawsuit, however, aimed at overturning the tax.
“This lawsuit focuses on the tax structure itself,” Tantraphol explained. “In 2025 Michigan Cannabis Industry Association filed a lawsuit that focuses on the constitutional process through which that 24% tax was established.”
