Marijuana Business Magazine - Issue 09, Oct 2017

Massachusetts Massachusetts has finalized its Cannabis Control Com- mission (CCC), and four of the appointees to the five- member panel voted against recreational marijuana legalization. Michigan A second – and competing – campaign to legalize recreational marijuana has gotten the green light to begin collecting signatures in a bid to make the 2018 ballot. The campaign, Abrogate Prohibition Michigan, was approved by the state board of canvassers to move ahead with its goal of 315,654 signatures. An exist- ing campaign, the Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, has collected more than 100,000 of the 252,523 signatures it needs. The Marijuana Policy Project sup- ports the coalition.