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A proposed change to Michigan’s adult use cannabis regulations would require businesses to provide “real-time access and live monitoring” via a web-based portal, MLive reports. Under the current rules businesses are required to record certain points of their operations – sales, shipping, and access – and store at least 30 days’ worth of footage and provide it to regulators upon request.
During a public hearing last week, Cassin Coleman, an industry consultant, said the proposal effectively gives the Cannabis Regulatory Authority (CRA) the right to conduct warrantless searches.
“The general public goes into these places and is always on camera. And now the agency will have access to that without giving any notice to anyone that they’re doing it.” — Coleman via MLive
Matthew Abel, a retired defense attorney and founder of the Cannabis Counsel, said allowing (CRA) access to a live feed “just seems so invasive.”
“Especially because [cannabis sales are] still federally illegal,” Abel said during his remarks at the hearing. “We don’t really want our faces on video, live-streamed (showing) illegal transactions.”
CRA spokesman David Harns told MLive the agency is “seriously considering removing the proposed camera rule change in its entirety based on the feedback already received” through public comments.
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