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Michigan
On February 12, 2008 Representative Michael Sak submitted house bill HB5700, which proposes Schedule I classification of Salvia divinorum and salvinorin A in the state of Michigan. The bill was passed by the House on March 5, 2008 (Yeas 106, Nays 0) and referred for review by the Senate Health Policy Committee.[80] The bill died at the end of 2008 when it never came up for vote in the Senate during the year.
Alcohol related financial contributions featured highly for Representative Sak's 2006 political campaign. According to the National Institute on Money in State Politics the Michigan Beer and Wine Wholesalers Association was his highest contributor.[32] A news reporter, noticing that out of the entire House Sak had got the most money from the association, asked Sak if he was acting on behalf of the alcohol lobby. Sak said that the question was insulting. The only special interest he’s working for is the “citizens of Michigan,” he said. He said that if people had questions about the deleterious effects of salvia, they should go on YouTube to watch the videos. Sak was asked whether he had ever seen a “Girls Gone Wild” video — where drunken college girls are asked to show their breasts, and are rewarded with free T-shirts — and whether that would incite him to try and make alcohol illegal. Sak said he had not had a chance to “review the material.”[81]