Detroit News, 28 Feb 2013 – WHO BENEFITS? Re: The Detroit News’ Feb. 26 editorial, "Stop denying patients access to medical marijuana": Follow the money, who benefits from a marijuana bust? Judges/ court systems, attorneys, police departments (via asset seizures) and mandatory rehab clinics.
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US MI: Column: What About The Patients?
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?
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US MI: Column: Unlocking A Movement
Metro Times, 27 Feb 2013 – Mass Incarceration Reaches Epic Proportions in ‘The Land of the Free’ There are certain statistics that should make people gasp with horror and seethe with outrage. Here is one of those numbers: 716.
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US MI: PUB LTE: Stop Fighting The Will Of People On Medical
Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb 2013 – State Attorney General Bill Schuette is again fighting the will of the people. He has somehow convinced the state Supreme Court to rule against patients and caregivers. Schuette was elected by the same taxpayers and voters who passed the Medical Marijuana Law. The Supreme Court missed the boat. They had a chance to fix what the voters failed to address in the law.
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US MI: Medical Marijuana Back In The Legislature
The Oakland Press, 24 Feb 2013 – Proposed Marijuana Act Would Establish Centers to Supply Patients Michigan’s murky medical marijuana law gained a bit of clarity recently with the state Supreme Court’s decision to outlaw dispensaries, but legislation introduced in Lansing seeks a safe way for legitimate patients to obtain their medicine.
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US MI: State Rep To Introduce Bill To Allow Medical Pot
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.
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US MI: Editorial: After Ruling, Legislature Needs To Clarify
Morning Sun, 17 Feb 2013 – It was something former Isabella County Prosecutor Larry Burdick passionately believed from the beginning: medical marijuana dispensaries do not comply with the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act. Now that a majority of the justices on the Michigan Supreme Court have agreed, it’s time for the state Legislature to step up to the plate.
