House Judiciary Committee Approves Landmark Marijuana Legalization Bill
The U.S. House Judiciary Committee passed a bill Wednesday that would effectively make marijuana legal. The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act of 2019 passed by a count of 24-10. Rep. Jerrold...
Lowell Becomes First Kent County City To Welcome Recreational Marijuana Businesses
Lowell, a West Michigan city of 4,000 residents, is moving ahead with recreational marijuana. The Lowell City Council unanimously approved two ordinances Monday, Oct. 21, that outline their rules and regulations for operating...
Michigan Marijuana Agency Defends Optional Product Transfer As Reasonable
LANSING - The Marijuana Regulatory Agency said Friday its approach to allowing some product transfers from the medical side to the recreational side was "reasonable" as patient advocates in the industry said they were "blindsided" by the...
Michigan Cannabis Leaders Night December 5
The Lansing Radisson Hotel will be decked out in holiday glory as Michigan's cannabis industry leaders gather for a special year-end celebration on Thursday December 5. The date had been incorrectly identified in an earlier version of...
Marijuana Industry Group Leader Concerned About Product Transfer
The recent news that medical marijuana businesses will be allowed to transfer product to the recreational side under certain conditions left Michigan Cannabis Industry Association Executive Director Robin Schneider "absolutely concerned."...
Michigan To Allow Some Marijuana Transfers, Sales Expected December 1
LANSING – Certain businesses will be permitted to transfer marijuana products on the medical side to the recreational side, the state said Wednesday, meaning limited recreational sales are likely to happen in a little over two weeks....
Transfer of Marijuana Between Equivalent Licenses
The Emergency Rules for Adult-Use Marihuana Establishments promulgated on July 3, 2019, allow a person to obtain equivalent licenses and when those equivalent licenses have common ownership, to operate those equivalent licenses at the...
Jamie Lowell Shares History Of Recreational Marijuana Legalization In Michigan
Jamie Lowell, one of the founding fathers of recreational marijuana legalization in Michigan, joins his radio partner Rick Thompson on M2 Techcast, now MITech TV. Lowell if vice president of Field Operations for The Botanical Co in East...
Michigan Transplant Surgeon Calls Vaping Damage To Teen’s Lungs ‘Evil’
The ravages of vaping to a Michigan teen’s lungs – a 17-year-old believed to be the nation’s first double lung transplant for vaping-related respiratory system failure – was “an evil I haven’t faced before,” one of the surgeons said...
Help Wanted In Michigan’s Projected Billion-Dollar-Plus Marijuana Industry
Within two hours on a day following record snowfall in Michigan, a career fair seeking up to 100 employees for a proposed marijuana grow facility in Pontiac ran out of its 300 applications. A waiting list was created for the jobs that pay...
