US MI: ‘Drugged Driving’ Crashes on the Rise in Michigan;

The Muskegon Chronicle, 14 Sep 2012 – LANSING, MI – Alcohol-related crashes may be down in Michigan, but there is another equally serious threat to contend with on the road: drugs. Though alcohol-related crashes have dropped 25 percent from 2006 to 2011, drug-related accidents in the state are up 22 percent , according to an MLive Media Group analysis.

US MI: Should Medical Marijuana Patients, Caregivers Be Able

The Muskegon Chronicle, 14 Sep 2012 – LANSING, MI – The Michigan Supreme Court has agreed to consider if the state’s medical marijuana law lets patients and caregivers store and grow marijuana together. In their order released Friday, justices set oral arguments to decide if it should grant an appeal from a Grand Rapids man busted in 2010 for growing too many marijuana plants.

US NM: Despite Praise As Success, Some Say NM Medical Cannabis

The New Mexican, 24 Sep 2011 – Four years after New Mexico’s Medical Cannabis Program was created, nearly 4,000 New Mexico residents have been approved to use the herb as medicine, and 25 nonprofit producers have been licensed to sell it to them. New Mexico’s system for regulating those producers is being adopted by other states as a model for allowing medicinal use of marijuana without seeing pot dispensaries pop up on every street corner, as they have in California and Colorado.