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Working With and Not Against, IRS Revenue Code 280E
Cannabis operators face IRS Revenue Code 280E restrictions, but smart tax planning and strategies allow entrepreneurs to mitigate its impact on their business.Komorn Law is Michigan's top cannabis law firms when it comes to licensing, consulting and legal defense....
Michigan Improved Workforce Opportunity Wage Act
IMPROVED WORKFORCE OPPORTUNITY WAGE ACT Act 337 of 2018 An initiation of legislation to enact the Improved Workforce Opportunity Wage Act which would fix minimum wages for employees within this state; prohibit wage discrimination; provide for a wage deviation...
Michigan communities still opted out of adult-use marijuana sales in 2023
Adult-use recreational marijuana has been legal in Michigan since voters approved a ballot proposal in the 2018 election, and sales commenced in 2019. However, numerous Michigan communities have chosen not to participate. That doesn't mean recreational cannabis is...
What Are Your First Amendment Rights For Now
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America for now. It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution, in 1789. Originally comprising seven articles, it delineates the national frame and...
Court rules that cannabis grows of any size is just a misdemeanor in Michigan
According to MLive - The likelihood of black-market marijuana growers in Michigan facing full-blown, paramilitary-style raids featuring battering rams and heavily armed narcotics teams has diminished. But everyone else knows better. Growing illegal marijuana in...
Department of Attorney General Prepares for MLEAC Accreditation
LANSING – The Michigan Department of Attorney General (DAG) recently welcomed a team of assessors from the Michigan Law Enforcement Accreditation Commission (MLEAC). The assessors came to examine all aspects of the Department’s compliance with the MLEAC standards in...
Oklahoma’s wild marijuana market is about to shrivel
The world's weed market, once booming with nearly 14,000 licensed medical marijuana businesses at its peak, has experienced a steady decline since Oklahoma voters overwhelmingly rejected a recreational legalization referendum in March. Heightened enforcement by state...
400K settlement after being arrested for a DUI, even though he passed breath and blood tests
A Colorado man is poised to receive a $400,000 settlement from city authorities after being wrongfully arrested for a DUI, even though he had passed both a breath and blood test.According to the complaint, Elias was driving southbound on College Avenue in Fort Collins...
Evaluation of Field Sobriety Tests for Identifying Drivers Under the Influence of Cannabis
This randomized clinical trial investigates the accuracy of field sobriety tests administered by law enforcement officers to assess functional impairment and driving performance among individuals who have smoked cannabis. Question How accurate are field sobriety tests...
When Being Questioned by the Police: Can They Lie to You?
When Being Questioned by the Police: Can They Lie to You? Introduction In the United States, police officers are generally allowed to lie to suspects during interrogations. This is a controversial practice, but it has been upheld by the Supreme Court. There are some...
Michigan Executive Directives Update December 1 2023
What is an Executive Directive? Similar to executive orders, executive directives are issued by the Governor to establish basic internal policy or procedure for the executive branch of state government, assure the faithful execution of law, and to supervise state...
Michigan Executive Orders Update December 1 2023
What is an Executive Order? The Michigan Constitution of 1963 vests the executive power of the state in the Governor. That power can be exercised formally by executive order. Executive orders may reorganize agencies within the executive branch of state government,...
Effects of marijuana on neurophysiological signals of working and episodic memory
Summary of this paper Introduction Such scalprecorded ERP differences are temporally associated with changes in synaptic and neuronal activity recorded directly from the hippocampus and other MTL structures (Smith et al. 1986;Heit et al. 1988), and are eliminated by...
Whitmer signs bill stripping gun rights for non-violent offenders
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer proudly showcases a crucial bipartisan gun violence bill package that she recently signed into law, underscoring her unwavering dedication to safeguarding the lives of those vulnerable to domestic violence. This essential measure reflects the...
Ohio Bill Introduced to Allow Each City to Ban Marijuana
With just over a week until Ohio’s voter-approved marijuana legalization law takes effect, a lawmaker has introduced a bill that would allow individual municipalities to locally ban the use and home cultivation of cannabis in their jurisdictions. The legislation aims...
NEWS RELEASE: USSC Adopts 2023 Amendments
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― Equipped with a quorum of Commissioners for the first time since 2018, the bipartisan United States Sentencing Commission voted today to promulgate amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines. “The Sentencing Commission is back in business,”...
Bad Ranking For Transparency in the Michigan Justice System
by Wes Smith, president, MPA Board of DirectorsPublisher View Newspaper Group When there was a change in leadership in Michigan’s legislature earlier this year, hope rose again in the hearts of citizens who want a more transparent state government. Maybe, it was...
Ohio voters say yes to legal recreational cannabis
Recreational marijuana has been legalized in Ohio as voters overwhelmingly approved State Issue 2 on Tuesday. This groundbreaking decision now enables adults in Ohio to legally experience the advantages of marijuana for recreational purposes. “Marijuana is no longer a...