Gov. Gretchen Whitmer‘s administration, which is using a new tax on marijuana to fund road projects, has refused to fully release an internal analysis of how additional taxes on pot would impact the cannabis industry and whether they would shift more purchases to the illegal market.
In November 2023 — about 14 months before Whitmer publicly proposed a wholesale tax on marijuana — the state’s Cannabis Regulatory Agency provided officials in the governor’s office a four-page memo on the potential repercussions of a similar tax.