Higher Ground: May You Live in Interesting Times
March 31 marks a new day in Detroit for medical marijuana. It's the last day for Medical Marijuana Caregiver Centers to apply for a license to operate in the city.
Before this, provisioning centers multiplied in a gray area of the law where they weren't exactly legal but were tolerated. That's an outgrowth of how Michigan's medical marijuana law played out when the courts ruled patients can have marijuana but didn't allow for venues to sell it. It's right in line with the weird machinations prohibitionists have always gone through to keep people away from the weed.
The original 1937 Tax Stamp Act that put marijuana outside the law did not make marijuana illegal. It simply said that you couldn't sell it without a federal tax stamp. And the feds weren't handing out any tax stamps for marijuana. The same thing goes for hemp (marijuana's industrial cousin) growing in many...
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