Aug 7, 2019 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
When doctors in Wisconsin wanted to put Bonnie Demos on a morphine pump for pain, she decided instead to move to Michigan and grow her own medicine. Demos started out in 2013 as a medical marijuana patient and caregiver, but Michigan’s voter-approved legalization of...
Aug 7, 2019 | Great Lakes Region, Michigan
The burgeoning market for CBD, a health product derived from cannabis plants that avoid the “high” from marijuana, is considered “low-hanging fruit” for the nearly 600 Michigan farmers now growing hemp. Over the past two months, officials have launched the state’s...
Aug 7, 2019 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
West Michigan businesses are building strategies to accommodate and support the grand opening of the state’s new billion-dollar cannabis industry, although many still crowd behind a self-imposed shroud of secrecy. Pioneers of the cannabis supply chain may face a...
Aug 7, 2019 | Great Lakes Region, Michigan
Michigan became the first state in the Midwest to legalize weed in November 2018, ending decades of marijuana prohibition. Cannabis use has been becoming more and more mainstream in the Mitten state since medical marijuana was legalized a decade ago. But the vague...
