By Richard C. Clement - Marijuana Policy Analyst
The following language is Public Act 281 a new State Law regulating the Marijuana Industry in the State. After reading the language, Council President Pro-Tem George Cushingberry Jr. is recommending a YES vote on both proposals. The Marijuana excize fund will be maintained by the Department of Treasury. The main beneficiaries are the County Executives, County Sheriffs, and Michigan Firefighter professionals. County Executive Warren Evans will get 30% of all revenue from sales. Another 30% goes to the first responder presumptive coverage fund and, is exclusively for firefighters with 5 years of service to address cancer concerns. In Wayne County, it will be Bucks for Bennie as the Wayne County Sheriffs Office will prosper from 5% of all sales and, the county will be in better shape financially.
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| Free The Weed for the Money I Need - Sheriff Benny Napolean -lol |
With Roy McCalister and Virgil Smith, you will get two NO votes, allowing the practice of Green on Green crime to continue between potential Marijuana business owners. A businessperson opening up a Church to prevent the opening of another facility is un-godly and insults the real meaning of religion. In the current ordinance, there is no provision for religions like Rastafarians and that has to change also. Finally there are outside interests who want a NO vote so that Detroiter's have to drive to Macomb County for their medicine.
However, there are many pastors in Detroit that support the YES vote but feel intimidated by others even though it is discussed in Genesis 1:19..
Read the language for yourself, Vote YES twice and, Write In George Cushingberry Jr. the man for you in District 2. (State and City)
Website: Full Language of Public Act 281 (PDF)
Webiste: State Of Michigan Dept of LARA First Resp. Presumptive Coverage Fund
PUBLIC ACT 281 - EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
PART 6. TAXES AND FEES
Sec. 601. (1) A tax is imposed on each provisioning center
at the rate of 3% of the provisioning center’s gross retail receipts. By 30
days after the end of the calendar quarter, a provisioning center shall remit
the tax for the preceding calendar quarter to the department of treasury
accompanied by a form prescribed by the department of treasury that shows the
gross quarterly retail income of the provisioning center and the amount of tax
due, and shall submit a copy of the form to the department. If a law
authorizing the recreational or nonmedical use of marihuana in this state is enacted,
this section does not apply beginning 90 days after the effective date of that
law.
(2) The taxes imposed under this section shall be
administered by the department of treasury in accordance with 1941 PA 122, MCL
205.1 to 205.31, and this act. In case of conflict between the provisions of
1941 PA 122, MCL 205.1 to 205.31, and this act, the provisions of this act
prevail.
Sec. 602. (1) The medical marihuana excise fund is created
in the state treasury.
(2) Except for the application fee under section 401, the
regulatory assessment under section 603, and any local licensing fees, all
money collected under section 601 and all other fees, fines, and charges,
imposed under this act shall be deposited in the medical marihuana excise fund.
The state treasurer shall direct the investment of the fund. The state treasurer
shall credit to the fund interest and earnings from fund investments.
(3) Money in the medical marihuana excise fund at the close
of the fiscal year shall remain in the fund and shall not lapse to the general
fund.
(4) The state treasurer shall be the administrator of the
medical marihuana excise fund for auditing purposes.
(5) The money in the medical marihuana excise fund shall be
allocated, upon appropriation, as follows:
(a) 25% to municipalities in which a marihuana facility is
located, allocated in proportion to the number of marihuana facilities within
the municipality.
(b) 30% to counties in which a marihuana facility is
located, allocated in proportion to the number of marihuana facilities within
the county.
(c) 5% to counties in which a marihuana facility is located,
allocated in proportion to the number of marihuana facilities within the
county. Money allocated under this subdivision shall be used exclusively to
support the county sheriffs and shall be in addition to and not in replacement
of any other funding received by the county sheriffs.
(d) 30% to this state for the following:
(i) Until September 30, 2017, for deposit in the general
fund of the state treasury.
(ii) Beginning October 1, 2017, for deposit in the first
responder presumed coverage fund created in section 405 of the worker’s
disability compensation act of 1969, 1969 PA 317, MCL 418.405.
(e) 5% to the Michigan commission on law enforcement
standards for training local law enforcement officers.
(f) 5% to the department of state police.
Sec. 603. (1) A regulatory assessment is imposed on certain
licensees as provided in this section. All of the following shall be included
in establishing the total amount of the regulatory assessment established under
this section:
(a) The department’s costs to implement, administer, and
enforce this act, except for the costs to process and investigate applications
for licenses supported with the application fee described in section 401.
(b) Expenses of medical-marihuana-related legal services
provided to the department by the department of attorney general.
(c) Expenses of medical-marihuana-related services provided
to the department by the department of state police.
(d) Expenses of medical-marihuana-related services provided
by the department of treasury.
(e) $500,000.00 to be allocated to the department for
expenditures of the department for licensing substance use disorder programs.
(f) An amount equal to 5% of the sum of the amounts provided
for under subdivisions (a) to (d) to be allocated to the department of health
and human services for substance-abuse-related expenditures including, but not
limited to, substance use disorder prevention, education, and treatment
programs.
(g) Expenses related to the standardized field sobriety
tests administered in enforcing the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL
257.1 to 257.923.
(h) An amount sufficient to provide for the administrative
costs of the Michigan commission on law enforcement standards.
(2) The regulatory assessment is in addition to the
application fee described in section 401, the tax described in section 601, and
any local licensing fees.
(3) The regulatory assessment shall be collected annually
from licensed growers, processors, provisioning centers, and secure
transporters. The regulatory assessment for a class A grower license shall not
exceed $10,000.00.
(5) On or before the date the licensee begins operating and
annually thereafter, each grower, processor, provisioning center, and secure
transporter shall pay to the state treasurer an amount determined by the department
to reasonably reflect the licensee’s share of the total regulatory assessment
established under subsection (4).
Sec. 604. (1) The marihuana regulatory fund is created in
the state treasury.
(2) The application fee collected under section 401 and the
regulatory assessment collected under section 603 shall be deposited in the
marihuana regulatory fund. The state treasurer shall direct the investment of
the fund. The state treasurer shall credit to the fund interest and earnings
from fund investments.
(3) Money in the marihuana regulatory fund at the close of
the fiscal year shall remain in the fund and shall not lapse to the general
fund.
(4) The department shall be the administrator of the marihuana
regulatory fund for auditing purposes.
(5) Except as provided in section 603(1)(d) and (e), the
department shall expend money from the marihuana regulatory fund, upon
appropriation, only for implementing, administering, and enforcing this act.
Sec. 605. The department may use any money appropriated to
it from the marihuana registry fund created in section 6 of the Michigan
medical marihuana act, 2008 IL 1, MCL 333.26426, for the purpose of funding the
operations of the department and the board in the initial implementation and
subsequent administration and enforcement of this act.
ReplyDeleteProhibition of marijuana is a premise built on a tissue of lies. Our new laws save hundreds of lives every year, on our highways alone. In the thirteen states that decriminalized marijuana between 1990 and 2009, traffic fatalities have dropped by nearly nine percent more than the national average, while sales of beer went flat by five percent.
No one has ever died from an overdose of marijuana. It's the most benign 'substance' in history, a neuroprotectant that actually encourages brain-cell growth. It also has tumor-shrinking, anti-carcinogenic properties, as confirmed by a study at UCLA.
Why in the world would churches object to its proximity? Some Detroit pastors have not done their homework. Their flocks have been misled. Marijuana is "cannabis" in Latin, and "kanah bosm" in the old Hebrew scrolls, quite literally the Biblical Tree of Life, used by early Christians to treat everything from skin diseases to deep pain and despair.
Don’t want it in your neighborhood? Maybe you’re not the Christian you thought you were.
Me? I’m appalled at the number of 'Christian' politicians, prosecutors, and police who pose on church steps or kneeling in prayer on their campaign trails cannot or will not face the scientific or the historical truths about cannabis, Medicinal Herb Number One, safe and effective for thousands of years, and celebrated as sacraments by most of the world's major religions.
RE-legalize the Biblical Tree of Life!!!