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Marijuana Advocates Use 'National Weed Day' To Push For Legalization In Michigan

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Marijuana advocates are gathering in Detroit Wednesday for "National Weed Day."  

They're trying to raise support for a plan to legalize recreational marijuana use in Michigan.

The MI Legalize campaign has to gather 252,000 valid signatures to get the proposal on the November ballot.

Jamie Lowell is the founder of Ypsilanti's3rdCoast Compassion Medical Marijuana Dispensary and a board member for MI Legalize.  He says the drive is going well.  "We have paid signature gathering companies in the field and we are recruiting more volunteers and we're making the big final push for the last few days so that we will be successful in getting this to the ballot," Lowell says.

Lowell says if they can get it on this year's ballot, he is confident the proposal will pass.

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— Taylor Pinson is a writer/reporter for 89.1 WEMU News.  Contact him at 734.487.3363 or email him studio@wemu.org

Taylor Pinson is a former WEMU news reporter and engineer.
Taylor Pinson is a former WEMU news reporter and engineer.
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