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Michigan marijuana businesses brace for 24% tax on Jan. 1</a> [2:21]
YouTube ^ | December 10, 2025 | WOOD TV 8 (Grand Rapids MI)

Posted on 12/10/2025 7:44:52 PM PST by SunkenCiv

This week, a judge ruled Michigan’s new 24% wholesale marijuana excise tax can go into effect on Jan. 1. (Dec. 10, 2025) 
Michigan marijuana businesses brace for 24% tax on Jan. 1 | 2:21 
WOOD TV8 | 261K subscribers | 1,181 views | December 10, 2025
Michigan marijuana businesses brace for 24% tax on Jan. 1 | 2:21 | WOOD TV8 | 261K subscribers | 1,181 views | December 10, 2025

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KEYWORDS: dispensaries; grandrapids; ifitmovestaxit; marijuana; michigan

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1 posted on 12/10/2025 7:44:52 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Bootleg Chinese fentanyl is starting to look pretty good now, huh?
Rimshot!

2 posted on 12/10/2025 7:46:24 PM PST by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: SunkenCiv

This affordability problem is out of control.


3 posted on 12/10/2025 7:50:02 PM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Guaranteeing that black market pot will be big business in Michigan.


4 posted on 12/10/2025 7:52:32 PM PST by TigersEye (The primary Democrat/leftist strategy is "Create maximum chaos every which way you can.")
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To: SunkenCiv

If you think there’s a War on Drugs now, just wait until the government starts getting a cut of the action.


5 posted on 12/10/2025 7:53:41 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: SunkenCiv

Aaaaaaaaaand right back to street dealers.


6 posted on 12/10/2025 7:53:51 PM PST by RightOnTheBorder
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To: SunkenCiv

If they keep raising the tax on it that will just encourage more illegal sales and more people will just grow their own.


7 posted on 12/10/2025 7:54:54 PM PST by jimwatx
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To: HighSierra5

Bogarting that joint can get you a cap in your ass.


8 posted on 12/10/2025 7:54:58 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: SunkenCiv

I just checked, and adults can grow up to 12 plants at a residence. Prepare for weed to be as common as zucchini in summer, with no taxes going to the State.


9 posted on 12/10/2025 7:57:07 PM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: SunkenCiv
They wanted it taxed and regulated.

Well.....

Be careful what you ask for.

10 posted on 12/10/2025 7:59:07 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (It's like somebody just put the Constitution up on a wall …. and shot the First Amendment -Mike Rowe)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Just the first one was important. 😁


11 posted on 12/10/2025 8:02:38 PM PST by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: HighSierra5

LOL!


12 posted on 12/10/2025 8:03:09 PM PST by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: HighSierra5

There is a lot of money to be made off of keeping the public doped up. It has always been a part of the push to legalize it.


13 posted on 12/10/2025 8:09:52 PM PST by iamgalt
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To: iamgalt

Just like the opium dens in China.


14 posted on 12/10/2025 8:11:35 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: SunkenCiv
Yeah, the "tax" part.

They were pushing so hard to put in a dispensary less then a block from the high school but heaven forfend that the apple farms outside town limits sell Scrumpy.

That would corrupt the children.

15 posted on 12/10/2025 8:13:49 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (It's like somebody just put the Constitution up on a wall …. and shot the First Amendment -Mike Rowe)
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To: TigersEye

>Guaranteeing that black market pot will be big business in Michigan.

It’s the same people either way; your bio says Colorado so you ought to know what sort of groups run those businesses and the likelihood that a normal sort of person would be able to start up a ‘farm’ and a business without ‘difficulties.’

Secondly the stuff is dirt cheap; I’m not a smoker but I can read billboards, and based on that the legalization is somewhere like an eight-fold deflation (pun not intended) compared to before. I don’t think this vice tax will drive the business underground.

Lastly like in CO with it being so cheap the usage is endemic. I can’t drive in a city without smelling it from the car next or ahead — through their and my closed windows. So many people drive high that “Student Driver” stickers are everywhere on cars that clearly do NOT have a 16-year-old anywhere near them. At least they’re informing the normal people that there’s *a* reason the driver is slow AF and driving like a wobbly 90-year-old.

I don’t care much whether people smoke - if they’re non-hostile it’s not my business and if they’re criminals it makes them slow and uncoordinated and stupider than usual. However *****mer basically got elected on the woo-stoner vote and also FUBARed the budget assuming endless Brandon-bux of printed money, so rather than give the Ds another easy layup into campaign season or tax the snot out of everyone, the MiGOP elected this path. Could be worse.


16 posted on 12/10/2025 8:25:04 PM PST by No.6
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To: SunkenCiv

“This week, a judge ruled Michigan’s new 24% wholesale marijuana excise tax can go into effect on Jan. 1”

no need for Michigan’s pot smokers to worry: still plenty of tax-free pot on the street ...


17 posted on 12/10/2025 8:25:07 PM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: SunkenCiv

At least they can still get it on the streets.


18 posted on 12/10/2025 9:11:35 PM PST by roving
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