An owner of a medical marijuana business convicted for tax crimes after failing to disclose that business to the IRS didn’t properly raise a challenge to Congress’s constitutional authority to tax marijuana, the Sixth Circuit said Thursday.
Ryan Richmond appealed after a district court in Michigan ordered him to pay $2.78 million in restitution to the IRS and serve a 24-month prison sentence following his tax evasion conviction by a jury in September 2023. Richmond asked the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to remand his case for resentencing, arguing the federal government’s taxing scheme for marijuana actually …
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