Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
Could legal recreational marijuana be in Michigan’s future? A referendum may be on the November ballot.
- Drive to legalize recreational marijuana in Michigan qualifies for November ballot
(Crain’s Detroit Business: Latest News, 26 April 2018)
Associated Press and Gongwer News Service – Michigan’s elections board said organizers collected enough signatures, but the measure will first go to the Republican-led Legislature, which could enact it or let it proceed to a statewide vote.
In other state news, Missouri is moving towards legal medical marijuana. The state House has voted in favor of a bill to give access to terminal patients.
- Missouri House Passes Medical Cannabis Bill
(Ganjapreneur, 2 May 2018)
Missouri’s House has passed a medical cannabis measure that would allow individuals with terminal illness and 11 other conditions to access the program, the Columbia Missourian reports.
When marijuana becomes legal in a jurisdiction, what happens to all those old arrests? Seattle is going to expunge them.
- Seattle Moves to Wipe Out 2 Decades Of Marijuana Possession Convictions
(Fortune, 28 April 2018)
Seattle’s mayor says it will help “right the wrongs of the failed War on Drugs.”
And in what is becoming a continuing series, another politician is speaking out in favor of legal marijuana. This time, it’s Democrat Dianne Feinstein.
- Dianne Feinstein says she no longer opposes legal marijuana
(Washington Post: Politics, 2 May 2018)
The California senator, a longtime opponent of legalization, says she’s come around.
Finally, have you wondered when the craft beer industry would jump on the marijuana bandwagon? The answer is this fall.
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Blue Moon’s Creator is Making a Marijuana-Infused Beer
(Fortune, 29 March 2018)
Keith Villa, the man who created the recipe for the popular Blue Moon beer, has a new project: a marijuana-infused beer made by his new brewing company.