MOUNT PLEASANT — The 2023-25 Wisconsin biannual state budget is a work in progress – for now at least. The approximately 25 residents who gathered at Mount Pleasant Village Hall on Tuesday evening, got the Republican Party’s perspective on the prospective state budget from a pair of GOP lawmakers who represent Racine County: Assembly Speaker […]
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Posted inPolitics
Illinois and Michigan again earned hundreds of millions from weed taxes in 2022, even more than previous year
First published on March 6, 2023 Meanwhile, the Republican-controlled legislature in Wisconsin is still struggling to legalize medicinal marijuana. A cannabis plant. By Katjusa Cisar, THE BADGER PROJECT Illinois and Michigan again raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue on recreational weed sales last year, and Minnesota is planning to join the […]
Posted inCommunity, Letter to the Editor
Letter to the Editor: Cannabis reform in Wisconsin 2023
Dear Editor: Governor Evers has paved the way for the legalization of cannabis in Wisconsin — both recreational and medicinally — as he has made it a part of the 2023-2025 budget. Now is the time for us to put pressure on those in charge to keep it within the budget. Wisconsin is quickly becoming […]