As marijuana legalization rolls out over the next 6 months, and with retail stores expected to be open in January 2020, Michigan will start to see many ancillary businesses pop up. One industry that has seen growth in states such as Colorado, California, Washington and Oregon where recreational marijuana is also legal is the wedding industry.
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No longer does consuming edibles have to include a terrible tasting product or end in a bad experience. With old school edibles (why was it always brownies?) we did not know what to expect in regards to the potency of the product, what strain was in it to know what to effects to expect, and it was probably not well known many years ago that the liver processes the plant differently when ingested than it does when smoking it.
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The Controlled Substance Act (May 1971) defined marihuana as every part of the Cannabis Sativa L plant except for mature stalks, ungerminated seeds, and products made from these portions of the plant. Every other portion of the plant and the products that are produced from them are considered a Schedule I drug. This Act then considered hemp to be a Schedule I drug. Hemp, of course, is classified as having less than .3% THC, so that the use of it would not provide any sort of feeling of euphoria. But, because the THC cannot be completely removed from hemp any product made with hemp was then seen as illegal
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The Board, since July, has only approved 121 licenses. Of these 121 approved, 105 have paid their regulatory assessments and actually been awarded a license. Among these approved licenses are 31 growers, 11 processors, 54 dispensaries, 4 testing labs, and 5 transporters.
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The rapid change in the attitude of the people across the country when it comes to the acceptance of legalized marijuana is quite astounding. The values and norms that make up our culture and society are passed down through the generations and it typically takes a long time to change the mind of such a large portion of society.
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