Detroit Free Press, 30 Apr 2013 – Leaders of substance-abuse prevention groups launched a statewide campaign to warn young people about marijuana at a meeting Monday in Clinton Township kicked off by U.S. Rep. Sander Levin. Teens are confused about whether marijuana is safe or even beneficial because Michigan voters legalized the drug for medical use in 2008 and other states have approved it for recreational use, said Charlene McGunn, executive director of the Chippewa Valley Coalition for Youth and Families.

Detroit Free Press, 18 Feb 2013 – Operators of Michigan’s medical marijuana distribution facilities are hiding behind steel doors with peepholes and growing warier than ever of strangers after a state Supreme Court ruling this month turned them into outlaws. That’s the word from marijuana users, cannabis lawyers and operators of facilities called dispensaries and compassion clubs.

Detroit Free Press, 01 Sep 2012 – A decision this week by the Detroit Election Commission means that Detroit voters will see a proposal on the November ballot to allow possession of up to 1 once of marijuana on private property by anyone age 21 and older. The commission’s action was perfunctory — in June, the Michigan Supreme Court ordered that the proposal be put on the ballot. That ruling followed a nearly two-year court fight in which the Detroit City Council and the city’s law department tried to keep the proposal off the ballot.

Detroit Free Press, 20 Oct 2010 – Oakland County Sheriff’s deputies used phony Michigan medical-marijuana cards — created on a county computer — to trick state-approved medical marijuana providers into selling the drug to the cops, according to documents obtained by the Free Press from defense attorneys. Days after the drug buys, county narcotics agents raided two medical-marijuana dispensaries Aug. 25 in Ferndale and Waterford.

Detroit Free Press, 08 Oct 2010 – More than 200 protesters gathered this afternoon to defend their use of medical marijuana outside the Waterford District Court, while inside a judge set hearing dates for 10 medical marijuana defendants in cases that experts say could land in the state Supreme Court. District Judge Richard Kuhn Jr. set preliminary exam dates of Nov. 4 for four defendants, and Nov. 19 for six others, all arrested during raids in August of a medical marijuana dispensary — where patients bought the drug — and a compassion club where they socialized while using it.

Detroit Free Press, 07 Oct 2010 – Medical marijuana patients said they plan to rally outside Waterford District Court at noon today to protest arrests of patients and raids of medical marijuana establishments in Oakland County. The rally is to occur as defendants in two raids file in for 1:30 p.m. hearings, organizer Rick Thompson said Wednesday.