Letter from the Editor: Where’s there’s smoke, there’s a compelling story about life on the marijuana border

MLive reporters sometimes go to extremes to find an interesting story. In the case of a package of stories on retail marijuana businesses in Michigan, that meant going to the very western edge of the Upper Peninsula.

Investigative reporters Gus Burns and Matthew Miller traveled to the Wisconsin border to research a story that blends a topic very much of our times – legalized marijuana – with the social, economic and law enforcement impacts of pot sales on communities all along the state divide.