{"id":3633,"date":"2014-07-16T15:31:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T19:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.mml.org\/wp\/inside208\/?p=3633"},"modified":"2014-07-16T15:31:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T19:31:54","slug":"senate-committee-passes-medical-marijuana-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2014\/07\/16\/senate-committee-passes-medical-marijuana-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Committee Passes Medical Marijuana Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"

This afternoon the Senate Government Operations committee passed\u00a0House Bill 4271<\/a>, a bill that would allow local units of government to regulate (or ban) provisioning centers (i.e. dispensaries), and HB 5104<\/a>, a bill to allow for medical marijuana infused products. \u00a0There has been some discussion on HB 4271 regarding\u00a0removing the local control aspect of it but that\u00a0remained intact as it passed committee today.<\/p>\n

Majority Leader Richardville (chair of the committee) stated there is still work to be done on the legislation before a vote on the Senate floor takes place but he wanted to send the\u00a0message the Senate is interested in moving the process forward.<\/p>\n

Samantha Harkins is the Director of State Affairs for the Michigan Municipal League.\u00a0 She can be reached at 517-908-0306 or email at sharkins@mml.org<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This afternoon the Senate Government Operations committee passed\u00a0House Bill 4271, a bill that would allow local units of government to regulate (or ban) provisioning centers (i.e. dispensaries), and HB 5104, a bill to allow for medical marijuana infused products. \u00a0There has been some discussion on HB 4271 regarding\u00a0removing the local […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","mml-onemagnify-plugin"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSenate Committee Passes Medical Marijuana Legislation - 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