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I don't mind 30's or even 20's but this bitter cold shit sucks. I can't stand having to wear a coat. It's been like this for a while and moving forward, it's not like it's going to get better in January.

at least you don’t have to worry about getting up and going to work…..

I decided a few years back I'm not working from Christmas until maybe the middle of March. There's never much going on anyhow.

Meanwhile. somewhere in Michigan....

It's 10 degrees.

"...The Michigan Court of Claims won’t block a 24% wholesale marijuana tax before it takes effect on Jan. 1, 2026.


“At this time, the court finds that plaintiffs have not demonstrated they are likely to succeed on the merits,” Court of Claims Judge Sima G. Patel wrote in her opinion. “Accordingly, the court denies plaintiffs’ motions for preliminary injunction…”


The opinion rejects arguments made by suing marijuana companies and the state’s largest cannabis lobbying group, the Michigan Cannabis Industry Association, that claim the new tax amends the 2018, voter-passed Michigan Regulation of Marijuana Act (MRTMA) and therefore required three-fourths support of the Legislature to be passed.


The judge noted that the voter initiative “plainly stated” the 10% retail excise tax was “in addition to all other taxes.” Because of that language, the court concluded that nothing in the measure prohibits imposing additional, separate taxes on marijuana.

The new legislation, referred to as the Comprehensive Road Funding Tax Act, “did not amend” the Michigan Regulation of Marijuana Act, the court said.

Jamie Lowell, director of Michigan’s National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws chapter and one of the 2018 law’s drafters, called the ruling a “misfire.”

The language “was meant to cover existing general taxes, not to open the door for new marijuana-only taxes,” Lowell said.

Michigan Cannabis Industry Association spokesperson Rose Tantraphol said her organization doesn’t believe the judge “made the right call.”

“While we are deeply frustrated by this ruling, I can tell you this: The fight is far from over,” Tantraphol said. “We remain confident in the strength of our case that this move by the Legislature violated the will of the voters who approved the 2018 citizen ballot initiative. We plan a swift appeal.”..."

It's 10 degrees.

25 headed down to 20. The snow stopped at about 4 inches.

What a bunch of bloated, impotent scumbags politicians are:

"LANSING, Mich. (WXYZ) — Michigan's 24% tax on marijuana will go into effect at the start of 2026 after a Court of Claims judge denied a request for an injunction....Shoppers will still also have to pay a 10% retail excise tax on marijuana, which has been in place since it was legalized in 2018, plus a 6% sales tax." So there's a 40% sales tax on reefer. They should put a excise tax on boy prostitutes and cheap liquor - make the politician pay their share.