{"id":83536,"date":"2025-10-01T03:15:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T11:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2025\/10\/01\/advocates-say-24-tax-will-hurt-cannabis\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T19:52:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:52:01","slug":"advocates-say-24-tax-will-hurt-cannabis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2025\/10\/01\/advocates-say-24-tax-will-hurt-cannabis\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocates Say 24% Tax Will Hurt Cannabis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/elsa-olofsson-G_nKIjoL9sE-unsplash-1.jpg\" width=\"11000\" height=\"7333\"> <\/p>\n<div class=\"hs-featured-image-wrapper\">\n <a href=\"https:\/\/420intel.com\/blog\/advocates-say-24-tax-will-hurt-cannabis\" title=\"\" class=\"hs-featured-image-link\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/elsa-olofsson-G_nKIjoL9sE-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"Advocates Say 24% Tax Will Hurt Cannabis\" class=\"hs-featured-image\" style=\"width:auto !important;max-width:50%;float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/> <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Michigan is at the center of a heated debate as lawmakers consider a new <strong>24% tax<\/strong> on wholesale marijuana. If approved, Michigan would have the second-highest cannabis tax rate in the nation, behind only Washington. Advocates, business owners, and cannabis workers gathered at the State Capitol to express their concerns, warning that a <strong>24% tax<\/strong> would devastate an already fragile industry.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ptq-4.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" style=\"min-height:1px!important;width:1px!important;border-width:0!important;margin-top:0!important;margin-bottom:0!important;margin-right:0!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-top:0!important;padding-bottom:0!important;padding-right:0!important;padding-left:0!important\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nRead More: <a href=\"https:\/\/420intel.com\/blog\/advocates-say-24-tax-will-hurt-cannabis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Advocates Say 24% Tax Will Hurt Cannabis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan is at the center of a heated debate as lawmakers consider a new 24% tax on wholesale marijuana. If approved, Michigan would have the second-highest cannabis tax rate in the nation, behind only Washington. Advocates, business owners, and cannabis workers gathered at the State Capitol to express their concerns,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2025\/10\/01\/advocates-say-24-tax-will-hurt-cannabis\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":83537,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18775],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83538,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83536\/revisions\/83538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}