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JACKSON COUNTY, MI – Leoni Township and Jackson County as a whole will benefit from having a new firetruck paid for by marijuana tax money.

The brand-new 2000 gallon-tanker truck is being built from scratch by Rosenbauer Fire Apparatus after the Leoni Township Board of Trustees approved using funds collected from the Marijuana Excise Tax to pay for the new $842,000 rig, township officials said Wednesday, April 24.

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 The Jackson County township collected more than $590,000 in marijuana tax revenue in 2023, state data shows.  Read More  

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