Marijuana laws can be tricky. Most of these statutes have strict possession limits and an offense can lead to legal struggles up to and including jail. The language of these laws might also allow some pot consumers to grow two plants, four plants, zero plants, and some, admittedly the strictest of the batch, won\u2019t even allow adults access to products they can smoke. It seems that everyone has their own idea of what marijuana legalization should look like. \u00a0Law enforcement and legislators seem to believe if these laws are not obeyed to the letter, well, society, as a whole, is doomed to rot in a cesspool of its own THC-induced squalor in the days to come.<\/p>\n
Perhaps one of the strangest marijuana laws that we\u2019ve picked up on in a while is in Michigan. Get this, while it is perfectly acceptable for adults 18 and over to sling\u00a0alcoholic beverages<\/a>\u00a0at any given restaurant chain, those same people are not allowed to hold jobs in the up and coming cannabis industry. At least not if the position is associated with \u201crecreational\u201d reefer.<\/p>\n Anyone who wants to grow or sell weed in Michigan for the pot partiers of the state must wait until they are at least 21 years old before that is possible. However, the same restriction does not apply if their green thumb interests are in the medicinal sector. People with dreams of cultivating the herb exclusively for the sick and dying have the freedom to do so. Just as long as regulators don\u2019t catch them near the recreational stuff.<\/p>\n You see, when Michigan voters headed to the polls a couple of years back to\u00a0approve the recreational marijuana initiative<\/a>, many failed to recognize, or maybe they just didn\u2019t give two-flying bucks, that the document came with age restrictions. \u201cNo marihuana establishment may allow a person under 21 years of age to volunteer or work for the marihuana establishment,\u201d the ballot measure read. This means if you just graduated high school and were hoping to skip all of that college business to get in on the ground floor of the Michigan marijuana scene, you\u2019re going to have to wait a few years. (Might we suggest putting your application in down at the neighborhood Chilis? It seems to be a favorite Michigan hangout, and learning how to\u00a0sell top-shelf margs<\/a>, man, that\u2019s a solid trade.)<\/p>\n Some members of the cannabis industry believe the law, as it is written, is just about as idiotic as it gets. The state has allowed people under the age of 21 to work in the medical marijuana sector for years. But now that the plant is set to be grown for the purpose of getting Michiganders red-eyed and ripped, younger adults are forbidden from working in this environment.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can serve alcohol at 18 and go to war at 18,\u201d Jerry Millen, owner of the GreenHouse medical marijuana dispensary,\u00a0told the Detroit Free Press<\/a>. \u201cWhy are they treating marijuana like some sort of nuclear material?\u201d<\/p>\n Well, weed\u00a0IS<\/em>\u00a0the bomb.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, the problem here is a lot of medical marijuana companies are also interested in participating in the recreational sector. This crossover between therapy and good times is happening in nearly every state that eventually makes the transition to adult use. But any employees these places have on the payroll that are not 21 \u2013 and there are plenty \u2013 will now be forced to work strictly with medicinal plants. These businesses might have to divide their cultivation centers into two separate entities \u2014 medicinal and recreational \u2014 and assign work duties according to age.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not a huge hiccup, some say, but it is just one of those annoying fine-print-details that the industry must endure.<\/p>\n Michigan also prevents anyone under 21 from growing weed at home. Incidentally, as with all of the pot laws passed so far in the United States, this is also the legal age for anyone wishing to buy pot from a retail outlet. But considering that the law allows residents 21 and over to grow up to\u00a012 plants<\/a>\u00a0(twelve\u2026 T-W-E-L-V-E) for personal use, we seriously doubt that anyone in Michigan who wants to be high will have any trouble finding a friend to hook them up. We are even going out on a limb to say that so much weed is going to be produced soon in Michigan that you can bet your butt that all of the youngsters slaving it out at the Chilis will be stoned.<\/p>\n Think about that in the coming months when you order\u00a0cheese fries<\/em>\u00a0at a restaurant and the server thinks you are saying, \u201cWe\u2019s high.\u201d Just don\u2019t be surprised when he or she responds with something like, \u201cMe too.\u201d Also, don\u2019t be shocked if when you do finally receive your order, it is a few fries light.<\/p>\n TELL US,<\/strong>\u00a0if people can serve alcohol and go to war at 18 years old do you think they should able to work in the legal cannabis industry?<\/p>\n The post Michigan Will Not Allow Young Adults to Work in Cannabis<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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