Yes, marijuana is legal now, but your community may have "opted out" of allowing recreational use

Two months of legal marijuana in Michigan has been met with bans on businesses by local governments in more than 250 communities, according to new state data and an analysis by MLive.

"My sense is about half are opting out out of an abundance of caution -- others are representing their community's opinion," said Josh Hovey, spokesman for the Michigan Cannabis Industry Association. "And that's their right."

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Marijuana law update: possible ballot proposal for 2018 to legalize marijuana for recreational use

Have you been asked to sign the petition? 

If approved, the petition would legalize personal possession, cultivation, and use of limited amounts of cannabis for adults 21 and older and license marijuana-related businesses. The petition also calls for testing and safety regulations for retail marijuana, legalizing cultivation of industrial hemp and taxing marijuana with a 10 percent excise tax and 6 percent sales tax.

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Marijuana supporters petition Michigan Supreme Court to allow ballot in November

Believers in the right for Michigan voters to decide whether or not the state should legalize recreational marijuana use for people 21 and older are taking the fight to the state's highest court.

MI Legalize, the group behind the effort to place a question about legalizing recreational marijuana use on the November 2016 ballot, filed a motion for the Michigan Supreme Court to overturn a lower court's ruling that the state has no obligation to count all of the the submitted voter signatures.

Read the article here (on mlive.com).