Tag: Marijuana
Is Lansing headed toward its own constitutional crisis?
The final legal briefs were filed this week in a lawsuit that pits state Senate Democrats against House Republicans for failing to send bills adopted by both chambers to Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Is this leading the state Capitol toward its own constitutional crisis?
KFF: A 3,000-foot view of how states are spending opioid settlement cash
In the past few years, state and local governments across the U.S. have begun spending billions in opioid settlements paid by companies accused of fueling the overdose crisis. But where is that money going, who is getting it, and is it doing any good?
Whitmer roads tax plan may drive marijuana shops out of business, experts say
Michiganâs marijuana industry is struggling with low prices and canât absorb a 32% wholesale tax to fund road repairs, industry leaders say….
Witness describes ‘the shop’ in luxury home at alleged drug lab trial
The room in the large London luxury home was called “the shop.” Inside it were glass tubes and beakers, a box that kind of looked like an oven and a machine “with a glass thing on top of it” to mix liquid in, a woman familiar with the 467 Commissioners Rd. property testified. And the […]
Whitmer’s $3B plan to fix Michigan roads calls for more corporate, marijuana taxes
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wants the Legislature to work with her on a plan to increase road fixes by $3 billion a year. Her plan seeks $1.7 billion in new corporate taxes and $470 million from a marijuana wholesale tax….