Dec 3, 2025 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
The Michigan Court of Claims heard arguments Nov. 25 over the constitutionality of a new 24% wholesale tax on cannabis products, a measure that has sparked significant backlash from the state’s legal marijuana industry. The tax, set to take effect on Jan. 1, was...
Dec 3, 2025 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
The Midwest Independent Retailers Association based in Bloomfield Hills urged members to remove hemp consumables from store shelves in and asked the Legislature to regulate the products. MIRA Vice President of Government Affairs Jerry GRIFFIN said the...
Dec 3, 2025 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
While the weed-centric 420 holiday on April 20th remains the largest sales day for most retailers across the state, the winter holidays have emerged as ticket-turners for the industry. At least three of the legal marijuana industry’s five largest sales days of the...
Dec 3, 2025 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
As Michigan’s regulated marijuana industry battles against the state in court, the scope and importance of the sector are coming into focus. The more than $3 billion industry accounted for roughly 52% of net private sector job creation from 2018 through 2024 in...
Dec 3, 2025 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
At least 1 in 6 pregnant mothers in Michigan are using cannabis, according to researchers at Michigan State University. Their findings, recently published in the journal Addiction, indicate “socially disadvantaged populations” in the state are more likely...
Dec 1, 2025 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
At the polls in November, voters in two Michigan border communities, Niles Township and Menominee, passed ballot initiatives to block or limit new marijuana shops. In the Upper Peninsula’s Menominee, where eight shops already exist in the town of about 8,500 along the...
