New Michigan marijuana law getting rewrite from State Senate Republicans

[workinclasszero]

By Ann Pierret | Posted: Fri 7:21 PM, Nov 30, 2018 | Updated: Fri 7:26 PM, Nov 30, 2018

LANSING (WJRT) (11/30/2018) - Michigan Senate Republicans are pushing for some limits to the state's new recreational marijuana law before it even takes effect.

The law won 56 percent support from voters at the polls on Nov. 6, but Republican lawmakers are trying to impose some limits

Starting next Thursday, when recreational marijuana becomes legal in Michigan, anyone age 21 and older can grow up to 12 plants in their home for their own use.

They also can carry up to 10 grams of marijuana on them in public and give away 2.5 grams without receiving any payment in return.

However, Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhoff, a Republican from Ottawa County, just introduced a bill that wouldn't allow home grows.

https://www.abc12.com/content/news/New-Michigan-marijuana-law-getting-rewrite-from-State-Senate-Republicans-501674662.html

[MarvinGardens]

1. So in Michigan, the people can pass a law,

and the legislature can just turn around and change it?

[Eric J in MN]

4. The article says the legislature would need 3/4. NT

NT

[MarvinGardens]

11. Thank you. That seems more reasonable.

[Eric J in MN]

12. You're welcome. It seems like a good system.

MN doesn’t have citizen-initiated ballot measures at the state level, unfortunately.

The MN legislature can put something on the ballot to avoid a veto. Usually, it doesn’t.

[workinclasszero]

6. Check what the GOP are doing in Wisconsin too

They don't give a damn what the people want or what they voted for!

[ooky]

2. The "state's rights" party strikes again.

[workinclasszero]

7. Bingo

Damn GOP hypocrites!

[jayfish]

3. "he'd like input from the voters who wanted it legal in the first place."

Ummm... You received that input on 11/6/2018.

Benjamin Horner, the current owner of Michigan Organic Solutions, which is Flint's first medical marihuana dispensary, agrees 12 plants grown in homes might be too much.

Nope, no conflict there.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

10. Yep. Their biggest concern is how their donors and John Boehner's clients can control the market.

[pecosbob]

5. Chamber of Commerce types don't want individuals to be able to grow their own

PM and RJR might miss out on a few bucks.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. I don't think Anheuser-Busch or Gallo are threatened by home-brewing.

PM and RJR will be just fine, even if I have a little indoor garden.

[pecosbob]

9. Didn't Monsanto (Bayer) already buy out all the seed banks?

That's their modus operandi...buy up all the seed stocks until you control the market, patent your own seed-stocks and then prosecute anyone that won't cooperate. Maybe I'm going out on a ledge, but I believe the push is towards outlawing home-grown.

[Eric J in MN]

13. It's strange how it goes into effect so soon after passage

..and can be changed by the lame duck legislature.

It would make more sense if ballot measures couldn’t be changed by the lame duck legislature, and went into effect in March at the earliest in case the next legislature wants to act.

[Devil Child]

14. They are blocking home grow to support dispensary industry

"Smart" Republicans have seen the money in marijuana trade and want to force consumers to businesses. The only true freedom for marijuana is to allow untaxed home growing. I don't want to support some aspiring Philip Morris if I want to consume marijuana.