Detroit Free Press, 09 Oct 2012 – Kemba Smith Pradia went to Tallahassee, Fla., last week to demand the right to vote. Back in the ’90s, when she was just Kemba Smith, she became a poster child for the excesses of the War on Drugs. Pradia, then a college student in Virginia, became involved with, and terrorized by, a man who choked and punched her. By the impenetrable logic of battered women, she thought it was her fault.

Lansing State Journal, 08 Oct 2012 – Today, the American public still continues to be largely uninformed about marijuana, particularly concerning the myriad of its amazing health benefits that it contains. Here are just a few (of countless) health benefits that marijuana possesses.

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The Daily Press, 05 Oct 2012 – ESCANABA – Concerns regarding the state’s medical marijuana act has prompted Escanaba to develop a resolution addressing local issues with the state legislation, council decided at its meeting Thursday. Discussion of the law was an agenda item addressed by Mayor Pro Tem Brady Nelson who has encouraged area municipalities to join the bandwagon in voicing concerns on the legislation enacted in 2008.

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Metro Times, 03 Oct 2012 – Lawsuits part of effort to get state officials to comply with medical marijuana law Medical marijuana laws generally get bureaucratic pushback from administrators, politicians and law enforcement unhappy with the changes made by citizens’ initiatives. Michigan medical marijuana activists claim that is the case with the Michigan Bureau of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA), which oversees the Michigan Medical Marihuana program (MMMP).

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The Oakland Press, 02 Oct 2012 – ALLEN PARK – Police say a pair of medical marijuana dispensaries they raided Sept. 25 were operating illegally. One dispensary was in a shopping complex at the corner of Reeck Road and Maylawn Avenue.

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