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  • Michael Komorn

    Michigan is licensing marijuana businesses but they still cant use banks.

    By Michael Komorn

    LANSING, MI - It was chilly on the morning of Dec. 15., but Michigan State Police stood outside a state office building. They were there for safety, ready, as the Bureau of Medical Marihuana Regulation opened its doors, for some applicants to show up with the $6,000 application fee in cash.     Michigan lawmakers authorized a new medical marijuana industry in 2016, and the state began accepting applications to be a part of it on Dec. 15, 2017. But businesses seeking inclusion
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  • Michael Komorn

    Michigan Medical Marijuana Expert Defense Attorney Michael Komorn gets grilled by House Committee while supporting asset forfeiture reform.

    By Michael Komorn

    Michael Komorn is dedicated to defending his clients from both criminal charges and civil asset forfeiture. During a committee meeting on House Bill 4158, a bill to reform asset forfeiture, House Committee member Triston Cole tried to find any possible way to attack Komorn's client testimony. With Michael's 9 years of dedicated experience to medical marijuana , he was ready to get deep into analyzing each question. Finally turning the questions around on Mr. Cole and defending his clients, once
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  • Michael Komorn

    Making A Federal Case Out Of Marijuana

    By Michael Komorn

    Our client, a medical marijuana patient registered with the State of Michigan, was out for a boat ride and some fishing on his friend’s boat. What started out as a glorious day with intentions of sun and fishing on the Detroit river later turned into federal charges of possession of marijuana (21 USC 844, 21 USC 844a) when a Border Patrol agent pulled up to them and wanted to search their vessel.   Related: Michigan law regarding marijuana manufacture, delivery, and possession   The federal
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  • Michael Komorn

    Komorn Law recommends keeping medical marijuana card and protections.

    By Michael Komorn

    After the legalization of marijuana in Michigan, some patients are thinking they could stop paying the state $100 for the special mmp card , and just use the recreational marijuana law to grow their medicine. A patient with a registered card can use the ultimate defense and immunity to avoid a driving under the influence charge. Only adults 21 or over are protected by the new legalization law, but no one yet knows how the new law will affect driving privileges. Is the zero toleran
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  • Michael Komorn

    Senator Gillibrand slams Big Pharma on opioids and marijuana issues.

    By Michael Komorn

    Senator Calls Out Big Pharma For Opposing Legal Marijuana Tom Angell A prominent Democratic U.S. senator is slamming pharmaceutical companies for opposing marijuana legalization. "To them it's competition for chronic pain, and that's outrageous because we don't have the crisis in people who take marijuana for chronic pain having overdose issues," Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York said. "It's not the same thing. It's not as highly addictive as o
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Herb Cannabis' Blog

My Response To Politicians Asking For Money

I received this letter in my inbox this morning, please read my response as this is how I will handle all request for political support in the future. I'm hoping that if enough of us do this, they may take notice.   Take action!   Make a donation to power the CREDO SuperPAC's grassroots campaign to defeat these Tea Party extremists. Take action now! CREDO Action | more than a network, a movement.   Meet the first six of the Tea Party Ten.   Dear John,   Joe Walsh. Steve King. Sean
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AlternativeSolutionsPlus' Blog

Ranking 20 Drugs And Alcohol By Overall Harm

Ranking 20 Drugs and Alcohol by Overall Harm - Marijuana ranked #8 out of 20 drugs in overall harm according to a study in The Lancet, a British peer-reviewed medical journal. Alcohol ranked #1 in overall harm and harm to others. Crack cocaine had the highest score for harm to users. See our new graphs showing detailed harm rankings for alcohol, cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy, heroin, LSD, methamphetamine, and more.   New 1/12/2012   http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceI
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Croppled1's Blog

Attutude Is Everything As Patients Seek Public Acceptance For Medicinal Cannabis

As more and more people become familar with the terrible plight of cannabis patients in the USA and world the Golden rule becomes more and more important to win further support among non patients .   Please remember in everything one communicates it must be polite , concise and free from anger . I am sure our most successful citizens can verify in business or politics one misplaced sentence felt as a insult by the other side in negotiations can alienate persons which take weeks even months t
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Stories From the Theater of the War on Drugs

Sen. Gretchen Whitmer Reacts To Sen. Rick Jones "hooker" Comment With More Name Calling (Commentary)

Sen. Gretchen Whitmer reacts to Sen. Rick Jones "hooker" comment with more name calling (commentary) Cavemen are running our government. http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/01/sen_gretchen_whitmer_reacts_to.html Published: Monday, January 09, 2012, 10:30 PM Updated: Monday, January 09, 2012, 10:34 PM   Why does this community feel like it it is getting screwed by its government? Well it was revealed to us by the honesty of this Michigan Senator. "I do not have the heart to te
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Curiosity of the Cannabis Experience

Blues, Rock And Traditional Gospel

Led Zeppelin – In My Time of Dying     "In My Time of Dying" is a traditional gospel music song that has been recorded by numerous musicians.   An early version, titled "Jesus Goin' A-Make Up My Dying Bed", is mentioned in historian Robert Emmet Kennedy's Black Cameos published in 1924, on Louisiana street performers, and also listed in the Cleveland Library's Index to Negro Spirituals.   One of the first versions recorded was by Blind Willie Johnson in 1927 as "Jesus Make Up My Dying B
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Stories From the Theater of the War on Drugs

States' Rights Claim From Brewer Goes To Pot

States' rights claim from Brewer goes to pot Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2011/12/28/20111228montini-states-rights-claim-from-brewer-goes-pot.html#ixzz1iCi37xQo The So Called States Rights Republican An old lawyer friend once said to me " you have no chance of persuading them, they already drank the cool aid." I thought I was reading about our own attorney general in this article below, because is would seem that he is drinking from the same carafe as Go
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Ms Chocolate's Blog

Happy New Years To All!

As we part and head into a new year, we need to review the past so we can better asset the future. We need to realize that what those in power has done to others, they may soon do to us.     The End of Poverty?     Globalization leads to unemployment, unemployment leads to poverty, and poverty leads to stress and violence.   Although it is the public that goes to the electoral polls, our government is run by Big Business – for Big Business, at the expense of the common person.  
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Stories From the Theater of the War on Drugs

Study: When Medical Pot Is Introduced, Alcohol Consumption Drops

Study: When Medical Pot is Introduced, Alcohol Consumption Drops   Posted by George Prentice on Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:16 AM       “This is old news but a study that needs to be read by every Legislature in Michigan,please make sure it is read by anyone that opposes the implementation of the MMMA and will of the People of the State of Michigan.” Michael Komorn   One of the more interesting journeys of 2011 (and we had a few) occurred last March, when we visited a spot called the
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Stories From the Theater of the War on Drugs

War On The War On Drugs

War on the War on Drugs Great article from Larry Gabrial from the Metro Times. While critical at times, this article is a great perspective of the last three years but also reflects on the bigger picture and issues that face our community in the year to come. After $1 triilion dollars wasted on failed policies, this whole medicinal weed thing really makes senseBy Larry GabrielPUBLISHED: DECEMBER 28, 2011When I started writing this column a little more than a year ago, I thought medical mariju
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Stories From the Theater of the War on Drugs

Jurors Need To Know That They Can Say No

Jurors Need to Know That They Can Say NoBy PAUL BUTLERWashington IF you are ever on a jury in a marijuana case, I recommend that you vote “not guilty” — even if you think the defendant actually smoked pot, or sold it to another consenting adult. As a juror, you have this power under the Bill of Rights; if you exercise it, you become part of a proud tradition of American jurors who helped make our laws fairer. The information I have just provided — about a constitutional doctrine called “jury n
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Stories From the Theater of the War on Drugs

Inhaled Cannabis Beneficial For Fibromyalgia Patients, Study Says

Inhaled Cannabis Beneficial For Fibromyalgia Patients, Study Says   Often much criticism is given to the negative aspects of inhaling medical cannabis to treat a debilitating condition. Here is scientific proof and study that supports the the ingestion of cannabis works. http://www.canadiancoop.com/index.php/news/459-inhaled-cannabis-beneficial-for-fibromyalgia-patients-study-says   Barcelona, Spain: The use of cannabis is associated with beneficial effects on various symptoms of fibr
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Stories From the Theater of the War on Drugs

Medical Marijuana For Add? State Considers It

Medical marijuana for ADD? State considers it I have said for a long time that if and when the state of Michigan gets it act together and takes the step, as outlined in the MMMA, to add psychiatric and psychological disorders to the registry the number of patients in Michigan would increase to 300,000. Seattle in this article is taking those steps now, here is the article to support that action and those arguments     By VANESSA HO, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFFUpdated 10:49 p.m., Tuesday, December
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Stories From the Theater of the War on Drugs

President Obama's Puzzling Silence On Marijuana Policy

President Obama's puzzling silence on marijuana policy Interesting article about the current adminsistrations policy towards medical marijuana and legalization.       Neal Peirce / Syndicated columnistPresident Obama's puzzling silence on marijuana policyThe youth vote helped propel Barack Obama to the presidency, but that enthusiasm has declined sharply, writes Neal Peirce. One issue might reignite youthful enthusiasm: marijuana — partly its medical use, but especially Americans' right to
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Michael Komorn

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Stories From the Theater of the War on Drugs

U.s. Government Licenses Patent For Medical Marijuana

U.S. Government Licenses Patent for Medical Marijuana It has been well documented that the Federal Government is aware of the medical benefits of cannabis. Yet marijuana remains a controlled 1 substance. This fact makes the following very difficult to reconcile.   Thursday, December 15, 2011 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is About to Award Exclusive Rights to Apply Marijuana as a Medical Therapeutic Deadline for Comment: Monday, Dec. 19 LOS ANGELES, CA – Dec. 15, 2011
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Stories From the Theater of the War on Drugs

Ptsd: Medical Marijuana Clinical Studies Confirm Benefits

PTSD: Medical Marijuana Clinical Studies Confirm Benefits   PTSD: Medical Marijuana Clinical Studies Confirm Benefits     http://www.salem-news.com/articles/december122011/ptsd-israel-pl.php   (MOLALLA, Ore.) - West Coast Leaf- winter edition, just published the results of a two-year clinical trial about cannabis for PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) comparing about 40 victims receiving cannabis with about 40 who did not. This work was done at Bat-Yam in Israel and reported at the Can
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Stories From the Theater of the War on Drugs

Medical Marijuana Elevates Former Soldier From Rock Bottom

Medical marijuana elevates former soldier from rock bottom http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Medical+marijuana+elevates+former+soldier+from+rock+bottom/5838194/story.html   Chris Hillier’s life arc bottomed out in a Vancouver back alley, across the country from his Newfoundland home and a world away from the war zone that broke him. Homeless, penniless, and addicted to crack cocaine, Hillier slept behind a community centre, at the intersection of Hastings and Main, the notorious epicentr
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Michael Komorn

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Stories From the Theater of the War on Drugs

Us Attorney Guidelines For Busting Dispensaries

US Attorney Guidelines for Busting Dispensaries From: California United States Attorneys This memorandum outlines factors that all four California U.S. Attorneys Offices (the USAOs) agree may render a particular marijuana case suitable for federal prosecution. Identification of these factors is intended to assist federal, state and local law enforcement agencies in determining whether a particular marijuana case has significant potential for federal prosecution and conducting investigations in
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Michael Komorn

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Stories From the Theater of the War on Drugs

The Doctor Behind Medical Marijuana

The Doctor Behind Medical Marijuana http://www.seattleweekly.com/2011-12-07/news/the-doctor-behind-medical-marijuana/ Meet the MD with the governor's ear.A A AComments By Nina Shapiro Wednesday, Dec 7 2011The never-ending debate about marijuana usually pits activists on one side and law enforcement on the other, with a smattering of politicians in between. But marijuana, at least in part, is supposed to be a medical issue. So where are the doctors? "There's a lot of ignorance," explains Grego
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Michael Komorn

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Stories From the Theater of the War on Drugs

Hawaii's Inaction Puts Medical Marijuana Patients At Risk-And So Has Michigan And The Other 16 States 

Hawaii's Inaction Puts Medical Marijuana Patients At Risk And so has Michigan and the other 16 States   http://www.civilbeat.com/posts/2011/12/05/14127-hawaiis-inaction-puts-medical-marijuana-patients-at-risk/ Clif Otto   It is becoming increasingly obvious that Medical Cannabis (aka Medical Marijuana) is catalyzing a raging debate across the nation and stimulating a flood of interest within the international medical community. With stakeholders polarizing on both sides of the issue, and
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Michael Komorn

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Stories From the Theater of the War on Drugs

Law Enforcement Officials Who Have Lost Their Jobs For Questioning The War On Drugs

Law enforcement officials who have lost their jobs forquestioning the war on drugs   The article in the link below is in today's New YorkTimes.   http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/03/us/officers-punished-for-supporting-eased-drug-laws.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2   Apparently, Border Patrol agents who speak what is on their minds,will be out of a job.   December 2, 2011   Police Officers FindThat Dissent on Drug Laws May Come With a Price   By MARC LACEY   PHOENI
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Michael Komorn

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Stories From the Theater of the War on Drugs

Editorial About Bill Schuette-Telling It Like It Is.

This editorial reflects how main stream media is beginning to understand that our Attorney General is doing a huge diservice to the citizens of the State of Michigan.     Traverse City Record-Eagle Editorial (Traverse City, MI)   The four public-notinvited medical marijuana sessions sponsored by MichiganAttorney General Bill Schuette across Michigan had more to do with promotingSchuette’s stridently anti-pot political agenda than trying to find ways tomake the law work for the tens of tho
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Michael Komorn

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Stories From the Theater of the War on Drugs

Universities Could Distribute Medical Marihuana

Universities could distribute medical marijuanaOption suggested by state work groupBy ASHLEY M. LATTA, Capital News Service     http://www.hometownannapolis.com/news/TOP/2011/12/02-17/Universities-could-distribute-medical-marijuana.html   In May, Gov. Martin O'Malley signed into law a bill providing a legal defense for marijuana use by patients who have been diagnosed with a debilitating medical condition that is "severe and resistant to conventional medicine." But the new law does not per
Michael Komorn

Michael Komorn

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Stories From the Theater of the War on Drugs

The Opposition To Mm Patients And Caregivers With Guns- The Response To This Insanity Is Gaining Steam.

The Opposition to MM Patients and Caregivers with Guns- The response to this insanity is gaining steam.   I can honestly say that this has simply been one of the most troubling directions that the law regarding patients and caregivers has gone. Hopefully the momentum will continue and some of this insanity can stop. Thank you to our friends Lee Berger and David Goldberg.           Opposition to Winters' gun appeal gains steam   http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2
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