Introduced
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To impose a licensure mandate and authorize a comprehensive regulatory regime for medical marijuana growers, transporters, dispensaries and more, with civil and criminal penalties for violations. Also, to impose an 8 percent tax on retail sales. The provisions of the state's voter-authorized medical marijuana law, <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2008-il-1">Initiated Law 1 of 2008</a>, were ambiguous on dispensaries, and in 2013 the state Supreme Court declared the law does not authorize them. The bill would authorize them, but let local governments choose to ban them.
Referred to the Committee on Judiciary
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (H-4) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Amendment offered
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To also authorize regulations that ban edible marijuana products whose shapes appeal to minors.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 95 to 11 (details)
To impose a licensure mandate and authorize a comprehensive regulatory regime for medical marijuana growers, transporters, dispensaries and more, with civil and criminal penalties for violations. This would be modeled on the state's "three tier" alcohol distribution regime, which has been criticized for empowering anti-competitive regional distribution monopolies. Also, to impose a 3 percent tax on retail sales. The provisions of the state's voter-authorized medical marijuana law, <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2008-il-1">Initiated Law 1 of 2008</a>, were ambiguous on dispensaries, and in 2013 the state Supreme Court declared the law does not authorize them. The bill would authorize them, but let local governments choose to ban them.
Referred to the Committee on Judiciary
Amendment offered
To revise details of the division of the money from the proposed tax.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 25 to 12 (details)
To impose a licensure mandate and authorize a comprehensive regulatory regime for medical marijuana growers, transporters, dispensaries and more, with civil and criminal penalties for violations. Also, to impose a 3 percent tax on retail sales. The provisions of the state's voter-authorized medical marijuana law, <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2008-il-1">Initiated Law 1 of 2008</a>, were ambiguous on dispensaries, and in 2013 the state Supreme Court declared the law does not authorize them. The bill would authorize them, but let local governments choose to ban them.
Passed in the House 83 to 22 (details)
