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Hundreds of people lined the
blocks outside local marijuana
dispensaries early Sunday morning
as Ann Arbor businesses Exclusive
Brands,
Arbors
Wellness
and
Greenstone
Provisions
opened
sales of marijuana to recreational
users for the first time. The stores
are three of six retail shops in the
state of Michigan licensed to sell
recreational marijuana.
Michigan passed Proposal 18-1
last November, allowing adults
over the age of 21 to possess up
to 2.5 ounces of marijuana. The
proposition also stipulated that
recreational sales of marijuana
be subject to a 10-percent excise
tax in addition to Michigan’s six-
percent sales tax. Applications to
sell recreational marijuana opened
Nov. 1.
The
Michigan
Marijuana
Regulatory
Agency
announced
Wednesday that licensed retailers
may transfer up to 50 percent of
their medical inventory from the
past month to their recreational
inventory. Currently, six stores have
received recreational licenses, four
of which are located in Ann Arbor,
one in Evart, and one in Morenci,
though not all of them have opened
sale to recreational users yet.
Al Moroz, manager of Arbors
Wellness, said he wasn’t surprised
by the number of people waiting
to make recreational purchases, as
consumers have been making their
demand known.
“We’ve had phones literally
calling about recreational sales of
marijuana since the first of the year
— ever since basically Michigan
voted
to
allow
recreational
possession of cannabis, people
have been expecting us to sell it,”
Moroz said. “We’re very happy that
we’re able to sell it today. We’ve
been seeing a lot of interest all
week, basically since they made the
announcement about transferring
inventory, so we’re not really
surprised by the crowds, but it’s still
a great thing to see.”
Ohio State defeats Michigan for
eighth year in a row in ‘The Game’
Buckeyes beat Wolverines 56-27 at the Big House, continue rivalry dominance
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Ohio State’s defense held the Wolverines to just 111 second-half yards as the Buckeyes cruised to a 56-27 win over Michigan, their eighth straight in the rivalry.
Ann Arbor dispensaries opened
Sunday following Prop. 1 passage
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On Jim Harbaugh’s fifth try,
on Michigan’s eighth since it last
won this matchup and on a day
that, for a moment, seemed to
have all the ingredients, it wasn’t
enough. Not nearly enough. And
after another year of coming up
short against Ohio State, it seems
like it might never be.
When Austin Mack delivered
the last dagger to Michigan’s
hopes, running to the corner
of the end zone after a 16-yard
touchdown and celebrating with
his teammates as the Buckeyes’
lead grew to 22 late in the fourth
quarter, Harbaugh looked on
with one hand on his hip. He
slumped his shoulders, then
started to walk up the sideline.
After the ensuing kickoff,
Patterson had nothing left to
do but trot back out onto the
field. He took a first-down sack
and was still on the ground as
four Buckeye defensive linemen
celebrated behind him. What
remained of the maize portion
of a crowd of 112,071 headed
towards the exits. Those in
scarlet congregated in the lower
level, knowing their school’s
grip on the conscience of the
Michigan
football
program
would last another year.
No. 1 Ohio State beat No. 13
Michigan, 56-27, on Saturday in
a game that felt inevitable even
after the Wolverines injected
belief into it. The Buckeyes
went for 577 total yards and 264
on the ground as, a year after
giving up 62 points in Columbus,
Michigan’s defense had just as
many answers as it did in 2018.
“We gotta be so much better,”
said sophomore defensive end
Aidan
Hutchinson.
“There’s
nothing we haven’t seen before, it
was all as expected. We just gotta
execute better and just all do our
jobs. And we didn’t.”
ETHAN SEARS
Managing Sports Editor
See OSU PAGE 2A
Read more at
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Recreational
marijuana sales
attract crowds
on opening day
Washtenaw County approves $100k
in funding for Title X services
Board of Commissioners authorize funds given to Planned Parenthood
DESIGN BY LIZZY RUEPPEL
The Washtenaw County Board
of Commissioners unanimously
approved $100,000 in funding for
Planned Parenthood of Michigan
Title X Services to the community
on
Nov.
20.
These
services
include breast cancer screenings,
contraception education, sexually
transmitted infection and HIV
testing and other wellness exams.
Title X funds do not pay for
abortion services.
According to the press release,
Planned Parenthood of Michigan
serves roughly 10,000 patients in
Washtenaw County alone, and was
recently stripped of its funding
when the Trump administration
updated Title X regulations in
March. Title X intends to provide
health care services to low-
income and uninsured individuals
at little to no costs.
District
8
Commissioner
Jason Morgan said he strongly
supported allocating the money to
Planned Parenthood.
“We thought it was extremely
important to ensure that these
other services continue to be
provided,” Morgan said. “I think
everybody understood the topic
that we were looking at. I had a
conversation with some folks at
Planned Parenthood who outlined
the challenges for me.”
After that conversation with
Planned
Parenthood,
Morgan
brought in Lori Carpentier, the
president of Planned Parenthood
Michigan, to talk about funding
with the Board of Commissioners
at a meeting. The board realized
that it needed to start providing
these services to the county
through the Washtenaw County
Health Department, but it would
take six months for the county to
be ready to provide them.
“We decided we needed to
help Planned Parenthood to help
bridge that gap so we didn’t have
any of these services cut off in the
meantime,” Morgan said.
District 9 Commissioner Katie
Scott said she was proud that
these funds would continue giving
women access to Title X services
during this transition period to
the Health Department.
“No women, regardless of
economic conditions, should be
denied services like STD testing
and cancer screenings,” Scott
said.
Without these funds, Morgan
said he feared the negative impact
in the community would be
widespread.
“There are 10,000 (people)
who would either not have
access to these services or not
be able to afford them, and we
would have an increase in STD
rates, and a potential increase
in
unplanned
pregnancy,”
Morgan said.
Scott noted there have been
some concerns in the community
about the funds being used to
support abortion services.
FRANCESCA DUONG
Daily Staff Reporter
State
Reps.
Yousef
Rabhi,
D-Ann
Arbor,
and
Robert
Wittenberg,
D-Huntington
Woods, introduced legislation to
prevent landlords in Michigan
from denying tenants housing
based on their source of income
last month.
The Housing Choice Voucher
Program is a federal program that
supplements housing costs for
low-income families, the elderly
and people with disabilities. In
the state of Michigan, landlords
are able to deny tenants housing
based on their source of income,
including
housing
choice
vouchers and veterans’ benefits.
Rabhi said the source of rental
payments should not matter if
payments are able to be made.
“If you are able to pay for the
rent, who cares where the money
comes from?” Rabhi said.
By
adding
housing
discrimination to the list of
what the Michigan Civil Rights
Commission
can
investigate,
Rabhi hopes the bills will address
the
economic
discrimination
housing choice voucher users
face.
“The landlords want to be
able to push people out because
there’s a certain stigma that
comes with Section 8, there’s a
certain stigma when it comes
with being low-income,” Rabhi
said. “And that’s the stigma
that is as much created by the
landlord, as it is a social stigma
that exists out there that we need
to break down.”
The
city
of
Ann
Arbor
already has protections against
economic
discrimination
in
place, as illustrated in the
Rights and Duties of Tenants
pamphlet landlords are required
to provide. The portion written
by the city specifies “No lessor
may refuse to rent to you or
to discriminate in your rental
agreement or privileges because”
... “(7) You get your income from
welfare payments or any other
legal source.”
Laura
Rall,
Social
Work
student
and
president
of
Affordable Michigan, said though
Ann Arbor already has these
protections, Rabhi’s bill will
benefit low-income and veteran
U-M students and staff on the
Flint and Dearborn campuses.
Laws would prevent landlords from
denying housing based on tenant income
JULIA RUBIN
Daily Staff Reporter
Read more at
MichiganDaily.com
State legislators
introduce bills
to implement
housing justice
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