Michigan Cannabis News

John McLeod is the co-founder of Cloud Cannabis Co., a Michigan cannabis retailer with dispensaries in Ann Arbor, Muskegon, and Traverse City.

Cannabis industry taxes and fees have generated about $11.6 million each for Michigan’s School Aid Fund and Transportation Fund.

Alvin Edwards is the founder of Fruits of Our Labor, which hires former prisoners to provide professional services; David Moss is the chief development officer for cannabis dispensary From the Earth. Together, they have created an equity-building partnership in cannabis.

Data recently released by Michigan’s Marijuana Regulatory Agency shows that applications for cannabis business licenses by white people outnumber applications from people of color by a ratio of 16 to 1.

According to the Leaflink 2020 Wholesale Cannabis Pricing Guide, wholesale flower prices increased 18% nationwide last year while edibles/ingestibles saw an 11% price decrease.

In a campaign called “Pot for Shots,” Michigan’s Greenhouse of Walled Lake dispensary announced an offering for a free pre-roll to anyone who provides proof they received a COVID-19 vaccine.

Adult-use cannabis sales in Michigan increased by 482% in 2020 despite the coronavirus pandemic and sales having not yet launched in Detroit, the state’s largest city.

A recent study by researchers from the University of Michigan and the VA Ann Arbor Health Care System investigates “cannabis withdrawal syndrome” by looking at two year’s worth of surveys from 527 Michigan medical cannabis patients.

Veterinarians in Michigan are now allowed to discuss the use of cannabis and industrial hemp products with clients under a bill that was signed into law last week.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has commuted the sentence of Michael Thompson, who was sentenced to 60 years in prison after selling cannabis to an undercover police officer in 1996.

Detroit officials are set to issue the city’s adult-use cannabis business licenses this summer.

Two studies presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions found that cannabis users may be at a higher risk of heart disease but also that cannabis consumers are less likely to experience sudden kidney failure.

The Northern Lights Cannabis Company has officially begun operations as the first tribal-owned cannabis business in Michigan.

Under a Michigan Court of Appeals ruling, individuals cannot make butane cannabis extractions and the practice — when done without a license — constitutes the manufacturing of a controlled substance.

Jay-Z’s new cannabis brand Monogram has launched a billboard advertising campaign at the borders between states with disparate cannabis laws.

Michigan’s industrial hemp plan will officially go into effect on December 1 after the USDA issued its approval.

Michael Thompson — the Flint, Michigan man who in 1994 was sentenced to 40-60 years for cannabis sales — will get a public parole hearing this November after 25 years of imprisonment.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has signed a piece of legislation creating an automatic process for the expungement of criminal activity that would now be legal under the state’s 2018 legalization initiative.

The Michigan Senate has approved legislation that would automatically expunge thousands of criminal records for low-level crimes and even some felonies.

The Ann Arbor, Michigan City Council has unanimously passed a resolution to decriminalize naturally occurring psychedelics, including mushrooms and ayahuasca.

A Florida-based attorney has filed federal lawsuits against at least three cannabis companies in Michigan, claiming the companies sent unsolicited marketing text messages or automated phone calls without proper consent.

Michigan regulators ordered the recall of about 3,200 pre-rolls after an employee allegedly licked one of the pre-rolls while making the product.

Michael Thompson, a nonviolent drug offender who is currently serving a prison sentence of 40-60 years for selling cannabis, has been hospitalized with COVID-19.