Metro Times, 27 Jun 2013 – Some say the good book approves of kind bud. Apparently God, who – from a believer’s standpoint – is the creator of all things, including marijuana, doesn’t care if you use it. At least that’s the opinion of the Rev. John Jackson of Trinity United Church of Christ in Gary, Ind., and probably quite a few of his peers.

Metro Times, 12 Jun 2013 – Obama Escalates the War on Drugs When Barak Obama became president in 2008, there was hope among marijuana activists that federal authorities would not concern themselves with medical marijuana facilities and individuals in states that legalized the plant for medical use.

Metro Times, 29 May 2013 – LAST WEEK, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act (MMMA) protects registered patients while driving with THC in their bloodstreams, although it left open the possibility of prosecution for impaired driving. In the case of People v. Koon, the court ruled unanimously (and without oral argument):

Metro Times, 15 May 2013 – A Place That Marijuana Activists Look to With a Gleam in Their Eyes If Michigan has a "city upon a hill," a beaming locale that is a showplace for the state, a place where the economy seems to roll along with hardly a glitch, a place "where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average," to borrow the description of Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon, it would be Ann Arbor.

Metro Times, 17 Apr 2013 – The 42nd Annual Hash Bash in Ann Arbor The 42nd Annual Hash Bash in Ann Arbor was the highlight of a flurry of activities around marijuana the past few weeks. A reported 3,000 people were at the University of Michigan Quadrangle for the Bash – part pep rally, part political effort and part toke-down.

Metro Times, 10 Apr 2013 – How Bill Kicked the Pills Bill had six back surgeries by the time he was 31 years old. The first was during the ninth grade after he injured his back getting tackled on the football field, rupturing a disc in his lower back. The surgery followed a few months later, resulting in his missing most of that academic year.

Metro Times, 27 Mar 2013 – The Stone-Cold Truth I got a good bit of reaction to my last piece on cannabis and cancer, so I want follow up on it before moving on to other subjects. Obviously, many folks out there are suffering and seeking relief, but I don’t want to peddle false hope; there is already too much of that going on. However, if you already have a death sentence hanging over your head then you pretty much have nothing to lose.

Metro Times, 27 Feb 2013 – Stubborn Legal Questions Vex Patients’ Search for Medicine When it comes to medical cannabis, there is a lot of attention paid to legal issues: Is it legal? Who can have it? Where can you have it? How much can you have? Can you buy it? Can you sell it? What’s legal? What’s not?

Metro Times, 13 Feb 2013 – State’s High Court Lowers the Boom The Michigan Supreme Court dropped a bomb last Friday that still has a lot of medical marijuana patients, caregivers and people who run so-called dispensaries disoriented as to how to continue operating under the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act.

Metro Times, 30 Jan 2013 – New Pot Doc Shows Patients Trying to Obey the Law Michigan medical marijuana activists have a new film promoting their cause. Blazed and Confused: The War Against the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act is a one-hour documentary that examines how things are not working so well for some folks in the medical marijuana system. It was made by local film maker Jen Whalen.