Gus Burns
Investigative Reporter at MLive
MLive investigative reporter. Pls contact me with any important, interesting stories. [email protected]
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5 days ago |
mlive.com | Gus Burns
LANSING, MI -- Any time, any day and without notice, Michigan regulators might be able to legally spy on marijuana businesses and their customers. That’s if one among a myriad of proposed rule changes currently being considered by Michigan’s Cannabis Regulatory Agency (CRA) take effect. Under existing rules, businesses are required to record various locations within their operations, including sales, processing, shipping and access points.
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1 week ago |
mlive.com | Gus Burns
LANSING, MI -- For the first time ever, Michigan marijuana regulators have banned a former business owner from the industry. “The Cannabis Regulatory Agency (CRA) has permanently excluded Youssef Barakat from being employed by or being a supplemental applicant of any medical or adult-use marijuana business in Michigan,” the CRA said in a statement issued Tuesday, May 6.
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2 weeks ago |
mlive.com | Gus Burns
OCEANA COUNTY, MI -- What led 28-year-old Kevin Graves to take his final breath at the Electric Forest music festival on July 1, 2018, may remain an eternal mystery. The cause of death was ruled “undetermined after investigation and anthropology studies,” reads the death certificate filed April 7. The death investigation concluded early this month, according to Lisa Kapriak, a representative for the Oceiana County medical examiner.
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2 weeks ago |
mlive.com | Gus Burns
LANSING, MI -- Michigan’s wide-open marijuana market wants to shut its doors. Amid plummeting prices, skimpy profit margins and heavy black market competition, the state’s largest cannabis lobbying organization this week called on lawmakers to stop issuing new marijuana licenses. “It’s because people are continuing to bring in illicit product -- conversion oil and other products -- into the regulated market,” said Michigan Cannabis Industry Association Director Robin Schneider.
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1 month ago |
mlive.com | Gus Burns
File photo, James Crumbley enters the Oakland County Courtroom (Mandi Wright/Detroit Free Press via AP, Pool)AP
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Michigan marijuana regulators proposed a rule to allow them effectively spy on businesses through live access to surveillance cameras, but the idea may be scrapped, the CRA said https://t.co/Hx8RhhaL5b
Is Michigan's marijuana industry to big? Some insiders want to change the rules and place a moratorium on any new licenses. They're citing the black market as the primary reason. https://t.co/OPhKSEbRNj
The medical examiner completed the death investigation for Kevin Graves, who vanished at the Electric Forest in 2018, and couldn't find a cause of death https://t.co/hT4T7UTPxV