Michigan's path to legal cannabis started on a university lawn in 1972, not at the ballot box in 2008. The protests, votes, laws and agencies that built one of the largest markets in the country.

Every legal cannabis product sold in Michigan carries a label packed with required information. Here's how to read it line by line, and why each piece is there.

THC percentage gets all the attention on a dispensary menu, but it only tells part of the story. Terpenes, the aromatic compounds that give cannabis its smell, are the rest of it.