What Is on Michigan's November 2026 Ballot About Cannabis?

You open the Michigan ballot looking for the weed question.

You read down both statewide lines and there isn't one.

I'm Jamie. I grow sun-grown flower in Michigan, and Divine Toke ships it by mail from Detroit. I read the Bureau of Elections' two statewide sheets so you don't have to hunt.

Is there a cannabis question on Michigan's November ballot? #

No. The statewide file lists two proposals, and cannabis is absent from both.

The file is titled "2026 November ballot questions." The Bureau of Elections posted it, and the PDF's own date stamp is September 8, 2026.

The elections page links that same file under the same title.

Two sheets sit inside. The one dated July 24, 2026 is Proposal 2026-1. The one dated August 17, 2026 is Proposal 2026-2.

I searched both sheets for cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, and hemp. Zero hits. These two sheets are the statewide questions on Michigan's November 3 ballot.

The Board of State Canvassers assigns the number and adopts the wording for statewide proposals. Your city clerk didn't write either line.

Detroit and every other Michigan city see the same two statewide lines. If your clerk added a city-only question, it sits in its own local section.

Item	On the statewide questions file
Proposal 2026-1, constitutional convention	Yes. July 24, 2026 sheet
Proposal 2026-2, campaign money and ad disclosure	Yes. August 17, 2026 sheet
A cannabis, marijuana, or hemp question	No
The 24% wholesale cannabis tax	No
A repeal of that wholesale tax	No

The Bureau phone number printed on the sheets is 800-292-5973.

What "absent" means here #

The state file runs two pages. Page one is the convention question. Page two is the campaign-money question. There's no third statewide sheet.

If the Bureau didn't print a cannabis line, I won't make one up to fill the gap.

Local questions live with your clerk. I won't invent one for Detroit or for any township either.

What are the two statewide questions? #

One asks whether to hold a constitutional convention in 2027. The other asks voters to adopt a law about campaign contributions and some political ads.

Here is Proposal 2026-1, from the July 24 sheet in the Bureau file:

The caption calls it a proposal to convene a constitutional convention to draft a general revision of the state constitution.

The question asks if a convention of elected delegates shall meet in 2027. Their job would be a general revision of the State Constitution. The draft would go back to the state's voters, who could approve it or reject it.

The boxes are Yes and No.

Here's Proposal 2026-2, from the August 17 sheet in that same file:

The caption calls it a proposed initiated law. It would prohibit campaign contributions from certain regulated utilities and government contractors. It would also apply campaign finance laws to additional types of political communications.

The sheet lists three things the proposal would do, and I put those in plain words in the next section. The closing line asks, "Should this proposal be adopted?" The boxes are Yes and No.

	Proposal 2026-1	Proposal 2026-2
Sheet date	July 24, 2026	August 17, 2026
Kind of question	Constitutional convention	Initiated law
Subject on the sheet	Draft a general revision of the constitution	Utility and contractor campaign money, plus ad disclosure
Cannabis mentioned	No	No
Your mark	Yes or No	Yes or No

An August 17 Board agenda still printed the campaign-money number as "2026-2 or 2026-3." The Bureau's posted questions file settled it as Proposal 2026-2.

If someone told you to look for Proposal 2026-3, go by the posted file. It has 2026-1 and 2026-2.

What would a yes vote on Proposal 2026-1 do? #

A yes vote starts a convention process aimed at 2027. It does not rewrite cannabis law on election night.

The Michigan Constitution, Article XII, section 3, puts this question on a clock.

The first submission was the general election in 1978. After that, the question comes back every 16th year. Add 16 and you land on 1994, then 2010, then 2026.

So 2026 is just a scheduled year. Nobody in the legislature dreamed this question up to get at cannabis. The constitution already required a convention question this year.

What the ballot line itself says #

The posted question asks if a convention of elected delegates shall be convened in 2027.

The draft from that convention would go to voters later, for approval or rejection. The question you're marking now covers that second presentation too.

A yes in November is a yes to holding the convention. Any draft comes back at a later election.

What the constitution adds about the steps #

Article XII, section 3, spells out the path if a majority of electors voting on the question favor a convention.

1. Delegates are elected at an election held not later than six months after the proposal is certified as approved.
2. Each representative district elects one delegate. Each senatorial district elects one delegate. The election is partisan.
3. Delegates meet at the seat of government. That meeting is the first Tuesday in October after the delegate election, unless a law sets an earlier date. The seat of government is Lansing.
4. The convention picks its own officers and writes its own rules.
5. A draft goes to the voters only if a majority of all elected delegates agree. Their names and votes go in the journal.
6. That later public vote comes not less than 90 days after the convention finally adjourns.
7. The new text takes effect only if a majority of the qualified electors voting on it approve it. The convention sets how it takes effect.

Look down that list. A possession limit, a tax rate, or a license rule never shows up in any step.

If the majority says no, the delegate election never starts. Section 3 ties that election to a majority in favor of a convention.

What a convention could touch later #

A general revision means delegates could draft broad changes. Cannabis statutes could come up inside a later draft, or they might not.

Nothing on the November sheet proposes a cannabis clause. Delegates would have to write one. A majority of them would have to pass it. Voters would have to approve it at a later election, and that election comes after this one.

The July 24 agenda shows the Board was set to assign the number and consider the summary that day. Go by the wording on the posted July 24 sheet. A rumor about a ban, or about a new allowance, is a different piece of paper.

I won't tell you how to vote. I'm reading you what the sheet and the constitution say the question does.

What does Proposal 2026-2 actually cover? #

It covers campaign contributions from certain utilities and contractors, plus disclosure on some political ads. The summary does not mention cannabis.

The petition status sheet, current as of August 31, 2026, labels the sponsor "Michiganders for Money Out of Politics." The type is "Initiated law." The status line says the Board determined it sufficient, 3 to 1, on July 24, 2026.

An initiated law is a proposed statute that reached the ballot by petition. This one cleared the Board's signature check, and the July 24 agenda listed that sufficiency decision as its own item.

The required-signature number printed for this row is 356,958. The sheet lists a signatures-submitted date of May 27, 2026.

The three rules, in plain words #

The August 17 sheet says the proposal would do three things.

• Block some campaign contributions. The blocked givers include regulated electric and gas utilities. They include contractors with over $250,000 a year in government contracts. They also include people or groups with substantial ties to those utilities or contractors. The block covers direct and indirect contributions. It covers people who run for offices that affect those givers, and people who already hold those offices.
• Widen the rules on spending for political communications. Donor disclosure would also cover ads that clearly name a candidate. It would cover ads that clearly name a ballot question. That includes ads that never say "vote for" or "vote against."
• Apply the "who paid for this" disclosure rule to internet political communications.

That second bullet is where people get tripped up. It uses the words "ballot questions," and those words describe ads that name a ballot question. Nobody is adding a cannabis question to the ballot there.

A utility donation rule has nothing to do with the price of an eighth. A disclosure rule for internet ads has nothing to do with a possession limit.

The closing question on the sheet asks whether this proposal should be adopted. Yes adopts the initiated law described there. No leaves that proposed statute unadopted.

What the summary leaves out #

The summary sets no cannabis tax rate. It doesn't change the age to buy. It doesn't open or close a dispensary. Detroit licenses never come up.

A campaign mailer might tie this proposal to weed prices. The Bureau's sheet has no price rule in it.

Keep the sheet next to the mailer. The sheet is three bullets and a yes or no.

What are people mixing up with a cannabis question? #

The mix-ups are an old vote, a tax that is already law, campaign speeches, a federal hemp clock, and city ballots.

None of those is a new statewide cannabis line on the November questions file.

The 2018 vote is already law #

Treasury's March 2026 bulletin says adult-use sales to people 21 and older followed voter approval of a 2018 initiative. That initiative is the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act. The statute spells it marihuana. Same plant.

The bulletin also says that act imposes a separate 10% excise tax on retail sales of adult-use marihuana. That 10% is current law, and this November ballot doesn't ask you to pass it again.

I'm skipping the 2018 campaign here. The Detroit culture post has that history. All I'm doing on this page is keeping that old vote apart from the two 2026 questions.

The 24% wholesale tax is already being collected #

The tax lives in 2025 Public Act 23, the Comprehensive Road Funding Tax Act. The governor approved it on October 7, 2025. It was filed with the Secretary of State the same day.

Section 5 starts the tax on January 1, 2026. The rate is 24% of the wholesale price, in the cases the act lists. The Treasury bulletin gives the same start date. Treasury approved that bulletin on March 17, 2026, and updated it on March 24, 2026.

That tax is a statute already on the books. The November questions file doesn't reprint it and doesn't ask you to repeal it.

How the 24% shows up around a receipt is its own article. The wholesale tax guide has that math, so I'm leaving it there.

Repeal speeches have no ballot line #

Candidates and trade groups have talked about repealing the wholesale tax. Talk doesn't come with a certified proposal number.

Who said what in mid-September is in the tax-repeal write-up. Read that if you want the quotes. This page stays with the ballot, and the statewide sheet has no repeal line.

I'm not scoring those speeches. A speech can be loud and still leave the printed questions unchanged.

A federal hemp date sits on a different calendar #

A federal change to hemp products has its own date later this year. That date is a federal statute clock, and you won't see it printed as Proposal 2026-1 or Proposal 2026-2.

The hemp deadline post covers what that clock means for shoppers. If a headline says "ban" and "ballot" in the same breath, pull them apart before you mark yes or no.

City questions live with your clerk #

The Bureau's two-page file is statewide. A city, village, or township question is printed by that clerk.

I don't have one state list of every local marijuana question, because the Bureau's questions file doesn't include them. If your city added one, it shows on your sample ballot under the local section.

Detroit readers should use the city clerk's sample for any city line. The two statewide proposals on that sample should still match the Bureau file.

A quick split #

Thing you heard	What it actually is	On the statewide November sheet
The 2018 legalization vote	Already law, including a 10% retail excise	No
The 24% wholesale tax	2025 PA 23, in effect since January 1, 2026	No
Repeal talk from campaigns	Speeches and endorsements	No
A federal hemp date	Federal statute clock	No
A city opt-in or opt-out	A clerk's local line, if the clerk filed one	No
Proposal 2026-1	Convention question	Yes
Proposal 2026-2	Campaign-money initiated law	Yes

Did any cannabis petition qualify? #

The petition status sheet current as of August 31, 2026, has no cannabis petition. One initiated law was found sufficient, and it is the campaign-money proposal.

The status sheet is the Board's list for the 2025-2026 cycle. I read every name on it.

The names are AxMITax and Protect Voters Rights. Americans for Citizen Voting shows up twice, in two versions. Then come Voters to Stop Paycuts, Invest in MI Kids, and Rank MI Vote. The last name is Michiganders for Money Out of Politics.

Not one of those names is a cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, or hemp measure, and no row describes a cannabis subject.

Sufficient means something different from "form approved" #

Most rows say the Board approved the form, or the form and summary. That only means the petition was allowed to circulate. It doesn't put the question on the November ballot.

One row says the Board determined the petition sufficient. That row is Michiganders for Money Out of Politics, 3 to 1, on July 24, 2026, and it became Proposal 2026-2.

Americans for Citizen Voting, version 2, says the Board determined it insufficient, 2 to 2, on August 24, 2026. The sheet lists a signatures-submitted date of March 4, 2026 for that row. A tie labeled insufficient gets no spot on the questions file. That file prints Proposal 2026-1 and Proposal 2026-2, and that's it.

The signature counts printed on the sheet #

The sheet prints 446,198 as the required signature count on the constitutional-amendment rows. It prints 356,958 on the initiated-law row that passed. It prints 223,099 on the referendum row, Voters to Stop Paycuts.

Article XII, section 2 sets the signature rule for a constitutional amendment. The petition needs at least 10 percent of the total vote for governor at the last governor election. The constitution is the source of that 10 percent rule, and the sheet prints 446,198 as the required count. I'll leave the governor-vote arithmetic to the sheet.

The same section says those petitions must be filed at least 120 days before the election. The state must announce whether the signatures are sufficient at least 60 days before the election.

For a November 3 election, 120 days before is July 6. Sixty days before is September 4. The September 8 questions file has no cannabis constitutional amendment on it, and the status sheet shows none reaching a sufficiency vote.

Other petition types follow their own statutes, and I won't guess at those deadlines. The posted questions file is the list that matters for statewide lines, and it has two.

The October 23 meeting #

The Secretary of State announced on October 16 that the Board's regular October 23 meeting was canceled.

That notice adds no proposal and deletes none. The questions file still shows the two sheets dated in July and August.

What stays in place for Michigan shoppers? #

Election night does not reset the cannabis rules that are already on the books.

You still have to be 21 to buy adult-use marihuana in Michigan. Treasury's bulletin states that age when it describes the 2018 law.

The 10% retail excise from that law stays a retail excise. The 24% wholesale excise from Public Act 23 stays a wholesale excise that began January 1, 2026. Those are two different taxes, and neither one gets a yes or no box on the statewide sheet.

If voters call a convention, it could put a draft in front of voters at a later election. Until that later vote, the current statutes stay in force.

Prices at a shop can still move for ordinary reasons. Wholesale tax, supply, and the menu all keep shifting with or without a cannabis proposal. This ballot just isn't the thing that moves them.

Divine Toke is mail order. We have no storefront. The November questions don't add a counter, and they don't take the mail order down.

How do you check your ballot before Election Day? #

Match the two statewide lines to the Bureau file, then read any local lines your clerk added.

Article II, section 5 sets the usual election day. National, state, county, and township offices are on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, in each even-numbered year. Special elections to fill vacancies can use another day. November 3, 2026 is the regular Tuesday.

Registration from where this page sits #

This page is dated October 22, 2026, so the registration window is already in its late stage.

Article II, section 4 covers mail registration. You may mail a completed application on or before the 15th day before the election. For this Michigan election, the 15th day before November 3 is October 19. That mail date has passed.

The same section opens an in-person path on the 14th day before the election, and it stays open through election day. You hand in a completed application and proof of residency. You do that with the official who keeps the registration file where you live, or with their deputies. The 14th day was October 20, so that path is open on the date of this page and stays open through November 3.

People who register that way are immediately eligible to receive a regular or absent voter ballot. The constitution says so. It doesn't list which documents count as proof of residency. Your clerk does, so call the clerk before you guess.

Absent ballots and early voting #

You can vote an absent voter ballot without giving a reason during the 40 days before the election. Forty days before November 3 is September 24, and that window is open.

You can apply, receive, and return that ballot in person or by mail. The constitution also gives you state-funded prepaid postage to return the voted ballot, and a tracking system.

Clerks must have the ballot by 8 p.m. on Election Day for it to count. Deputy Secretary of State Aghogho Edevbie said that in the October 20 release. The same release says to hand-deliver a mail ballot. Take it to a drop box, the clerk, an early voting site, or the polling place. Dropping it in the mail this close to Election Day is a gamble.

Early voting sites must be open at least nine days in a row. The run starts the second Saturday before the election and ends the Sunday before the election. Each of those days is at least eight hours. This year that's Saturday, October 24, through Sunday, November 1. The October 20 release gives the same window, statewide.

No early voting results are generated or reported until after 8 p.m. on election day. That rule is in the same constitutional section.

What the October 20 totals were #

As of 7 a.m. on October 20, the Secretary of State reported these figures:

• 2,121,458 voters had requested a mail ballot, including 2,001,574 on the permanent mail ballot list.
• 789,476 had returned a completed ballot by mail, drop box, or to the clerk.
• 789,572 had cast a ballot in total, including 96 votes at an early voting site.
• That was 10.7% of active registered voters.
• Requests were 17 percent higher than two weeks before the 2022 midterm.

Those numbers show turnout pace and say nothing about a cannabis question. People are already voting on a ballot whose statewide questions are the convention and the campaign-money law.

Drop boxes, ID, and the straight-ticket mark #

The constitution requires at least one state-funded secure drop box in every municipality. Larger places need more. If a municipality has over 15,000 registered voters, the rule is at least one box for every 15,000. I'll leave Detroit's exact count to the clerk's list.

When you vote in person, you can show a photo ID. The ID can come from a federal, state, local, or tribal government. It can also come from a school. If you don't have it with you, you can sign an affidavit. The constitution says you shall not be required to vote a provisional ballot solely because you signed that affidavit.

The straight-ticket option records a vote for the candidates of one party. Proposal 2026-1 and Proposal 2026-2 are separate yes or no lines, so mark each one on its own. The constitution's straight-ticket sentence covers candidates only.

A five-minute check #

1. Find Proposal 2026-1. Confirm it's the convention question for 2027.
2. Find Proposal 2026-2. Confirm it's the utility and contractor contribution law.
3. Look for any extra local heading. A marijuana line there belongs to your clerk. The two statewide sheets cover the convention and the campaign-money law.
4. Mark yes or no on each proposal you choose to answer. The posted file has two sheets and no third statewide weed question.

The Bureau number on those sheets is 800-292-5973.

Questions people ask before they vote #

Is cannabis on the Michigan November ballot? #

No. The Bureau's statewide questions file has Proposal 2026-1 and Proposal 2026-2. Neither sheet mentions cannabis. The file is dated September 8, 2026, and the inner sheets are July 24 and August 17. A city line would come from your clerk, since the state file doesn't print city lines.

What is Proposal 2026-1? #

It asks whether elected delegates should meet in 2027 to draft a general revision of the state constitution. The question says that draft would still go to voters, who could approve it or reject it. The constitution has required this question every 16th year since 1978.

Does a yes on the convention change weed rules that night? #

No. A yes vote starts the delegate process. The current constitution stays in place that night. Article XII, section 3 says a draft still needs a majority of the delegates, and voters get a later election at least 90 days after the convention adjourns.

What is Proposal 2026-2? #

It is an initiated law about campaign money and some political-ad disclosure. The givers named on the sheet include certain utilities and government contractors. The status sheet says the Board found the petition sufficient, 3 to 1, on July 24, 2026. The sponsor is Michiganders for Money Out of Politics.

Does Proposal 2026-2 change the 24% wholesale tax? #

No. The summary's three bullets are about contributions and ad disclosure. The 24% tax is 2025 Public Act 23, and section 5 put it in effect on January 1, 2026. The words "ballot questions" in the second bullet point to ads that name a ballot question.

Is the state redoing the 2018 legalization vote? #

No. That vote is already law. Treasury's RAB 2026-3 says the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act already imposes a 10% retail excise. The history sits in the culture post.

Can I still register on October 22? #

Yes, in person, with proof of residency, through Election Day. Mail registration closed on the 15th day before the election, which was October 19. The source is Article II, section 4. Ask your clerk which documents they accept as proof.

When do early voting sites open? #

Saturday, October 24, through Sunday, November 1, at least eight hours a day. That matches the constitutional nine-day run and the October 20 announcement. Your clerk must have a mail ballot by 8 p.m. on November 3.

What if my city printed its own marijuana question? #

Then it is a local question. It sits outside the two statewide sheets, and the Bureau file doesn't publish every city line. Read your sample ballot. In Detroit, the city clerk's sample is where a city-only line would show up.

Will shop prices change because of this election? #

This ballot has no cannabis tax question. The 10% retail excise and the 24% wholesale excise stay as they are. Menus can still move for ordinary business reasons. The receipt math lives in the wholesale tax guide.

Did a cannabis petition fail the signature check? #

The August 31 status sheet lists no cannabis petition. That means no failed cannabis signature check either. The one insufficient finding is Americans for Citizen Voting, version 2, on a 2 to 2 Board vote dated August 24, 2026. Nothing on that row points to cannabis.

Where do I read the official wording? #

Use the Bureau of Elections PDF titled "2026 November ballot questions." It's linked from the elections page. The phone number printed on the sheets is 800-292-5973.

After you fold the ballot #

The two statewide questions on Michigan's ballot will get counted. Your jar stays the same that night.

Adult-use rules that are already law stay in place. The 10% retail excise stays. The 24% wholesale excise stays. If the convention question wins, a convention still needs delegates, and any new constitution still needs a later election.

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I read public election documents for this page. The yes or no mark is yours, and your clerk can answer questions about your own ballot.