Holland Sentinel, 22 Jan 2013 – Zeeland – William Hapner’s letter in Friday’s Sentinel about drug tests for welfare applicants was great. I have to take drug tests to maintain my commercial driver’s license for work – people who are on welfare should also. There are jobs out there but, in some cases, employers can’t hire people because so many of them fail their drug test. I hope Gov. Rick Snyder does like Gov. Rick Scott from Florida did and signs a new law for drug testing for welfare recipients. The money saved could fix some of our roads and not raise gas taxes.
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US MI: Column: Seeds Of Change
Metro Times, 16 Jan 2013 – Legalization Efforts Grow From the Bottom Up Peeling back the layersof cannabis prohibition is like playing a game of three-card Monte. Now you see it, now you don’t. That seems to be the case with decriminalization efforts that won handily in five Michigan cities in November and energized activists.
posted on January 1, 2013 by
US MI: OPED: Anonymity Of Addiction Hurts More Than It Helps
Petoskey News-Review, 28 Dec 2012 – Our Silence Has Allowed Others To Define Us I often wished that state legislators who knew the most about addiction would band together and speak out as one during budget debates. Who better to advocate for treatment and chip away at public denial than the recovering alcoholics I knew who were also members of the General Assembly?
