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
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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
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Bootleg Chinese fentanyl is starting to look pretty good now, huh?
This affordability problem is out of control.
Guaranteeing that black market pot will be big business in Michigan.
If you think there’s a War on Drugs now, just wait until the government starts getting a cut of the action.
Aaaaaaaaaand right back to street dealers.
If they keep raising the tax on it that will just encourage more illegal sales and more people will just grow their own.
Bogarting that joint can get you a cap in your ass.
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.
Well.....
Be careful what you ask for.
Just the first one was important. 😁
LOL!
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.
Just like the opium dens in China.
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.
>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.
“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 ...
At least they can still get it on the streets.
I’ve lived almost all my life in CO but I don’t know diddly about the marijuana biz and I don’t go to cities so I’m not familiar with the smell of pot everywhere either.
I do know that black market pot is still going strong here and, unlike CA, CO didn’t tax the crap out of it. In CA the legal pot shops are failing because of taxes and regulations and NOCA still has a thriving illegal grow biz going on.
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