LANSING, MI (WTVB) – You will get the chance in November 2018 to decide whether or not recreational marijuana should be legalized in Michigan for those over the age of 21.
Tuesday was the deadline state lawmakers to take up the ballot proposal and prevent it from being on the November ballot.
The State Senate had enough votes but the Republican majority in the House could not muster enough votes to approve it.
House Speaker Tom Leonard said on Tuesday afternoon that the lack of action should not have been any surprise at this point.
Kalamazoo Democrat Jon Hoadley says this is the way it should be.
Arguments that it will be much harder to modify if voters approve it, than had the legislature approved it were not enough to overcome the aversion Republican lawmakers have to grass.
Michigan would become the tenth state in the country to legalize pot if voters approve. It would carry a ten percent excise tax at the retail level.
