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Ann Arbor’s Annual Hash Bash will go ahead Saturday, April 4 on the Diag at the University of Michigan. Now in its 55th year, a permit was granted for the annual event, which is one of the nation’s longest-running platforms for cannabis advocacy and free expression. WEMU’s Caroline MacGregor talked to organizer Jamie Lowell about the event and what he says is a concerted political effort to undermine cannabis rights and free speech.

Michigan’s recreational marijuana industry filed a new lawsuit Monday challenging the 24% wholesale tax on marijuana that took effect in January. Rick Pluta reports.

A bill has been introduced in the Michigan State Senate to repeal the 24% marijuana wholesale excise tax that went into effect this year. WEMU's Kevin Meerschaert reports.

The Michigan Court of Appeals says it won’t bypass the state Court of Claims to hear a challenge by the cannabis industry to the new wholesale tax on recreational marijuana. We have more from Rick Pluta.

A cannabis industry group filed a challenge Tuesday with the Michigan Court of Appeals in an effort to block a new marijuana tax from taking effect January 1. We have more from Rick Pluta.

Bills passed by the Michigan Senate would set a lower THC threshold for regulating a product as marijuana or “consumable hemp.” Colin Jackson has more on what that would mean

A Michigan Court of Claims judge has declined to block a new wholesale tax on recreational marijuana from taking effect January 1. Rick Pluta reports.

A Michigan Court of Claims judge heard arguments Tuesday on whether to pause a new state tax on marijuana before it takes effect on January 1. We have more from Rick Pluta.

A Michigan Court of Claims judge in Detroit will hear arguments today on whether a new wholesale tax on marijuana was adopted in violation of the state Constitution. We have more from Rick Pluta.

A lawsuit challenging the state’s new wholesale marijuana tax will get its first hearing this week before a Michigan Court of Claims judge. We have more from Rick Pluta.