Michigan’s struggling cannabis industry pushes lawmakers for urgent reforms

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Michigan’s struggling cannabis industry pushes lawmakers for urgent reforms

April 23, 2025

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Vandalism at the Goodman Acker law offices in Southfield.
By Steve Neavling
Luminosity: A Detroit Arts Gathering is on view at the Charles H. Wright Museum through March 31, 2026.
By Randiah Camille Green
Immigrants are making a wrong turn at the Ambassador Bridge, and many are ending up in federal custody.
By Steve Neavling

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Detroit City Councilwoman Gabriela Santiago-Romero is fighting to stay on the ballot.
By Steve Neavling
Image: FBI, police raid homes of pro-Palestinian activists tied to U-M protests (2)
By Steve Neavling
Detroit City Council President Mary Sheffield is running for mayor.
By Steve Neavling
Image: Angela Yee opens The Alex, a renovated apartment building in Detroit’s Midtown
By Kahn Santori Davison
Dave McMurray.
By Dave Mesrey
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By Rob Brezsny
Roosevelt Johnson plays ex-Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in Strawberry — What Party.
By Randiah Camille Green
Jinya Ramen Bar is located at 129 S. Main St., Royal.
By Lee DeVito
Pocket Change can seat around 50 guests.
By Lee DeVito
The interior of La Serre in Ann Arbor’s Vanguard Hotel.
By Lee DeVito
Chick-fil-A has opened a new store in the Detroit area.
By Lee DeVito
Fans at the AfroFuture Festival.
By Lee DeVito
Tanya Trotter and Michael Trotter Jr. of The War and Treaty.
By Lee DeVito
Jason Moran 2025 Detroit Jazz Fest Preview Gretchen C. Valade Jazz Center at Wayne State University Tuesday, April 15
By Ryan Patrick Hooper
Each tablet contains 20 milligrams of THC and is scored to be split into two 10-milligram servings.
By Steve Neavling
Jazz Cannabis Club owner George Brikho says his business has been broken into three times in the past year.
By Steve Neavling
Image: Detroit-area dispensaries celebrate 4/20 with cannabis deals (2)
By Steve Neavling
Image: 8th Street Canna Launches First Store with 420 Street Fest in Hazel Park on April 19
By Metro Times Promotions
Bridging Our Friendship Rally As anyone who’s ever had the pleasure of interacting with our neighbors to the north knows, Canadians are nice people. The nicest. One time, while visiting a record store in Windsor, I overheard the clerk politely say, “Well, which Nickleback albums don’t you own?” This would never happen in the U.S. The point is that you have to fuck up pretty bad to piss Canadians off, and it seems President Donald Trump has done just that. His bizarre threats to make Canada the “51st state” or slap it with tariffs have riled our nation’s closest ally, with some Canadians even calling for a boycott of U.S. products. This weekend, Americans and Canadians will set aside our differences for “Bridging Our Friendship,” an international gesture of solidarity. All across the U.S.-Canada border, people on both sides plan on gathering at 1 p.m. on Saturday to wave flags, sing each others’ national anthems (time to brush up on the lyrics to “O Canada,” and “The Star-Spangled Banner” for that matter), and show the world some of that famous Canadian kindness. Detroit’s protest will take place at Hart Plaza, organized by the group We the People Dissent. Protests will also be held in Port Huron by Blue Water Indivisible and in Sault Ste. Marie by Yoopers Unite. Hundreds of people showed up at the Detroit-Windsor border for a similar protest last month. Let’s see if we can top it. Starts at 1 p.m. on Saturday; Hart Plaza, Detroit. No cover.
By Lee DeVito
Freaky Tales This passes the vibe check. A batshit-crazy anthology of interconnected stories (set in 1987 Oakland!!) following a goofily animated green lightning that shapes the fates of several disparate Californians. If you’re like me, this movie has it all: punks vs. Nazis, rap battles, narration by Too $hort, fake cigarette burns to give the film that old-school theatrical texture, a deep love of 1980s Oakland and Bay Area hip-hop culture, a deep obsession with genre movies, the Golden State Warriors, kung-fu, cartoonish violence, Pedro Pascal, sword fights, and so very much more. Filmmakers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck take all the tricks they’ve learned in 20 years as writer-directors (including their toe-dipping into studio blockbusters with 2019’s Captain Marvel) and made what feels like a deeply personal and goofball love letter to their youth and the things that make them happy. It’s not perfect, but what is? At the end of the closing credits, there’s a brief moment where the statement “This movie was made in its entirety by human beings” appears. Just a group of people making a movie about Oakland in the 1980s with sword fights and rap music. Humanity at its best. Freaky Tales Grade: B
By Jared Rasic, Last Word Features
Image: Thousands protest Trump in Detroit as part of nationwide ‘Hands Off!’ rallies [PHOTOS]
By Lee DeVito
Image: Everything we saw at Astronomicon 8 in Ypsi [PHOTOS]
By Josh Justice

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