Oct 7, 2025 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
As Michigan lawmakers finally approved a budget, one piece of the deal included a new tax on wholesale marijuana sales that is intended to help fund future road work. The road plan relies on the 24% wholesale tax on marijuana, and is about half as big as the...
Oct 7, 2025 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
A complex network of Chinese-run black market marijuana operations is enveloping the U.S. — and Michigan is caught in the web. Though the chain of command is murky, politicians, attorneys and law enforcement who spoke with MLive believe the multi-layered...
Oct 7, 2025 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer participated in a series of behind-closed-door meetings with Democratic lawmakers last week to help secure votes she needed to get a new budget and a road funding plan through the House and Senate. On Thursday night, Democrats...
Oct 6, 2025 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
Black market operators are cheering the Michigan Legislature’s vote to more than double marijuana taxes, opponents say. About 3 a.m. Friday, Oct. 3, the Michigan Senate in a contentious 19-17 vote passed a new 24% wholesale tax on marijuana, that insiders say will...
Oct 3, 2025 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
Michigan lawmakers unveiled and approved a long-awaited budget that makes funding cuts to many state agencies while allocating an extra $1.1 billion to the Michigan Department of Transportation, which is responsible for fixing state roads and bridges. And shortly...
Oct 2, 2025 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
Buying legal marijuana in Michigan will likely cost about 24 percent more starting next year, thanks to a tax hike meant to fill potholes, writes Scott McClallen from Michigan Capital Confidential. Michigan’s political leaders have agreed not to shut down the state...
