On Thursday, it will become "legal" for Michigan adults aged 21 and up to carry up to 2.5 ounces of cannabis, keep up to 10 ounces at home, and grow up to 12 plants at home (assuming they do not have a landlord that prohibits it). However, there will be no businesses licensed to sell cannabis to non-medical customers on Dec. 6:
For years, a student at Michigan State University with a medical marijuana license has picked up a few extra pot products when he goes to his local dispensary and resold them to friends for just above retail price. "It's allowing me to have free access to medication and also helping out friends so they have something to enjoy themselves," he told Bridge Magazine.
Since Michigan approved recreational marijuana in November, a few more friends have asked whether he could pick up cannabis products for them, and he's happy to deliver. Under the new law, which goes into effect Thursday, Dec. 6 and is officially known as the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana Act (MRTMA), it will no longer be illegal for his friends to use those products. It will, however, still be illegal for him to act the middleman, but he's not worried. "I feel that they're not going to crack down on that because it's going to be difficult to monitor," he said. And if he is arrested, "I don't know if those charges will be as severe as they are now, considering it'll be like reselling cigarettes."
Law enforcement is scrambling to determine the parameters of the new law and how they will allocate resources to enforce it. The student's friends have their fair share of questions, too: What's okay? Where can they light up? And is it okay for them to carry pot around? It will likely be another year before the state begins licensing businesses that can legally sell recreational marijuana. In the meantime, Michiganders can legally use pot products, but can't legally buy them, leaving a trail of questions.
Michigan Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof has introduced legislation that would prohibit citizens from growing cannabis plants at home, along with other changes that would weaken the law approved by voters.
Also at ABC.
See also: FAQ: Recreational marijuana in Michigan
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday December 05 2018, @08:20AM (5 children)
I've known some Michiganders.
One of them told me that their state legislature one took of the question of whether they should be referred to as Michiganders or Michiganians.
What's your take?
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 05 2018, @08:59AM (2 children)
And their legislature two?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday December 05 2018, @10:02AM (1 child)
The quick ultramarine toothbrush jumped over the putrid supersonic telephone pole.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 05 2018, @01:46PM
What's with this re-purposing of "FTW"
Back in the day, it meant either "Fuck The World" or "Fight The Whites"
Stealing, even if it be from anarchists or minorities is still wrong!
Boo! Boo! Boo!
Then again, "Fuck The World, For The Win!" or "Fight The Whites, For The Win!" has it's own charm.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 05 2018, @11:52AM (1 child)
Michiganoids
Michigunners
Michiganglions.
Michigonorrheans.
Michiganthropoids
(Score: 4, Touché) by Rivenaleem on Wednesday December 05 2018, @01:43PM
Michigeese.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 05 2018, @10:01AM (7 children)
The slide towards degeneracy is progressing nicely. The inevitable fallout420 will be interesting and sad to watch.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 05 2018, @11:48AM (6 children)
Yep. Those folks will be gettin' high instead of being good 'murikkkans and getting drunk. The sad part you mention is that there will be far fewer drunken brawls, since nobody ever heard of an angry pothead and fewer auto crashes, since everyone will be home eating doritos and watching TV instead of crashing their cars coming home from the bar.
Very sad. This strikes at the very core of 'murikkkan values. If I can't get drunk, beat my girlfriend/wife/kids/random other drunk person, then wrap my car around a telephone pole every weekend [anvari.org], then 'murikkkan culture is dead. amirite?
Sigh.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 05 2018, @02:45PM (4 children)
This is why feminists classify cannabis as a date rape drug with no medical use. They want the beatings to continue, because it provides power and wealth to upper class feminists. They want working class women to be raped. So they encourage alcohol consumption while supporting cannabis prohibition.
(Regarding rape, see also the transphobic policies put into place at Grand Valley State University by the Eyes Wide Open organization, which included automatic expulsion of trans women entering the women's restroom for attempted rape--not only did they not reduce campus sexual assault, they increased it. See rape statistics from about 2001 or so until 2014.)
I'm glad that Michigan is starting to tell feminism to go fuck itself.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 05 2018, @03:01PM (1 child)
So you are not in favor of expelling people that enter a restroom for the purpose of attempted rape?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 05 2018, @03:06PM
We need to make sure we expel all the bathroom rapists, including post-menopausal women [thinkprogress.org], because they are indistinguishable from trans women and therefore indistinguishable from men.
Humanity is male and feminism defines woman not herself but as relative to him.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday December 05 2018, @06:23PM
See rape statistics from about 2001 or so until 2014.
Here's rape statistics for 2003 to 2011. [wikipedia.org]
Big shocker: AC is completely full of shit.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Thursday December 06 2018, @02:02AM
I know you won't respond since you're taling out of your ass, AC.
But just for fun, which feminists "classify cannabis as a date rape drug"? Just provide a few citations. Or even just one.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday December 05 2018, @06:18PM
Don't forget fewer overdoses!
Legalizing Marijuana Decreases Fatal Opiate Overdoses, Study Shows [drugabuse.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 05 2018, @04:49PM
...would deprive pharma bros from 1000s per month per patient
my required colon medicine went up in price from $25 per month (15 years ago) to $1000 per month now for the same old medicine - I have no sympathy for big pharma missing their quarterly numbers, especially for classic formulations
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 05 2018, @05:15PM (1 child)
all the hand wringing over enforcement and the implications of the law are ridiculous. it's real fucking simple, pigs. just mind your own goddamn business and start doing the job you were fucking hired for. going after real criminals, you chicken shit thieves!
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday December 05 2018, @06:04PM
NPC sez: "Green Plant Bad!"
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 05 2018, @08:01PM (6 children)
We had some pretty strong ant-MJ laws and propaganda before that were out of proportion to the problem.
Now we're overreacting the opposite direction and acting like it's harmless and it will save our state economies.
I can't feel too happy about legalization except that it takes away from police wasting resources on fighting it and may lessen police corruption as it takes away a revenue source.
The rest of the effects are not positive. Kids need to stay away from the stuff for the sake of their developing brains. It's still a drug, not a dessert, folks.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 05 2018, @08:03PM
I will add to my post that, being a drug, I am all for it for people who benefit from using it for medical reasons.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday December 05 2018, @09:18PM (4 children)
Dessert is a drug. And sugar is addictive, maybe chocolate too. And weed is good for the economy, especially if you make desserts...
You are welcome to reasonable regulation, prohibition, never.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 06 2018, @03:06AM (3 children)
It's idiotic responses like this that I was referring to.
Please do not promote weed. I don't want this stuff to spread. Let the present-day tokers keep it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 06 2018, @08:40AM (2 children)
The real problem is that you're a dweeb, and responses like the GP are the only way to communicate with your kind, through mockery. Luckily for the rest of us, people like you are finally being outvoted. Now, you can go to hell, please.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 06 2018, @11:27PM (1 child)
There is nothing but name calling in your post because you have no logic to stand on.
Go addle your brain with chemicals.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 06 2018, @11:54PM
You only have your Reefer Madness propaganda. Logic isn't recognized amongst the faithful. You are a very revealing of the stereotype. You simply don't see. And please, stop with the projection.