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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 

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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

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MichiganDaily.com

State legislators 
introduce bills 
to implement 
housing justice

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