Nov 9, 2025 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
The Cannabis Regulatory Agency wants pot dispensaries to report customers who possess illegal amounts of cannabis. But the CRA is not asking the stores not to sell it. “It doesn’t really make sense, at all,” said the manager of a store in the Upper Peninsula, who...
Nov 7, 2025 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
The Michigan Cannabis Industry Association, representing hundreds of Michigan cannabis companies, will make oral arguments this month to try and stop the Michigan Treasury from assessing a 24 percent wholesale tax on cannabis sales. The MiCIA is asking for a...
Nov 5, 2025 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
For the second time in three months, residents in Menominee, Michigan passed an amendment to limit the number of cannabis dispensaries in the city. Tuesday’s vote was 78 percent in favor of implementing a cap. Since Michigan legalized recreational marijuana in...
Nov 5, 2025 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
Michigan lawmakers last Thursday debated possible restrictions of kratom, a product largely unregulated now in Michigan. The Michigan Kratom Consumer Protection Act, sponsored by State Rep. Cam Cavitt, R-Cheboygan, would do the following: Ban...
Nov 5, 2025 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
Michigan hemp producers may head into 2026 still bound by the state’s Industrial Hemp Growers Act, if lawmakers don’t take action on measures that would transfer oversight of hemp farming to the federal government. Two measures introduced this month remain pending:...
Nov 5, 2025 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
Two of Michigan’s most renowned cannabis cultivators — Hytek and Growing Pains — are teaming up for a one-day live rosin drop combining two of this year’s most-awarded strains, according to a press release. The collaboration will debut at a cannabis party on Nov. 6,...
