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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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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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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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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
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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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9 % Decrease In Driving Fatalities In Medical Marihuana States 

9 % Decrease in Driving Fatalities in Medical Marihuana states Med. marijuana laws = 9 percent traffic-death decline, 5 percent beer-sales dip, study finds   ​The subject of driving under the influence of marijuana has been much debated in these parts. A bill to set a THC driving limit was shelved in May, shortly before an HDNet report demonstrated pot-related driving impairment -- and in August, the Colorado Department of Transportation launched a drugged-driving campaign. Now, however, a n
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Former State Senator: Medical Marijuana Advocates Meant To Craft A 'vague' Law To Try To Legalize Marijuana

Formerstate senator: Medical marijuana advocates meant to craft a 'vague' law to tryto legalize marijuana       More Disturbing views from those in the Minority, and interfering with the implementation of the mandate of the voters of the State of Michigan.     SAGINAW TWP. – A former Republican state senator says advocatesof a medical marijuana law were "very blatant" in their attempts tocraft a vague law "so they could basically legalize marijuana."   Alan Cropsey, now director of
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Sexy Pot Ads Provoke Debate Over Medical Marijuana Goals

Sexy pot ads provokedebate over medical marijuana goals     http://www.sacbee.com/2011/11/28/4083460/sexy-pot-ads-provoke-debate-over.html   By Peter Hecht phecht@sacbee.com   By Peter Hecht The Sacramento Bee   Last modified: 2011-11-28T06:29:39Z   Published: Monday, Nov.28, 2011 - 12:00 am | Page 1A     Copyright2011 The Sacramento Bee. All rights reserved. This material may not bepublished, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.   In2009, a
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The Medical Miracle That You'll Get Arrested For Using

The Medical Miracle That You'll Get Arrested for Using By Dr. Mercola http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/Non-food/Drug/marijuana_1126110736.html Marijuana was a popular botanical medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, common in U.S. pharmacies of the time. Yet, in 1970, the herb was declared a Schedule 1 controlled substance and labeled as a drug with a "high potential for abuse" and "no accepted medical use." Three years later the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) was formed to enforce the
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California Chapter Of The American Society Of Addiction  Medicines Calls For Legalization And Regulation . 

California Chapter of the American Society of Addiction Medicines Calls for legalization and regulations. San Francisco, CA--(ENEWSPF)--November 23, 2011. The California chapter of the American Society of Addiction Medicines (ASAM) has issued a paper calling for the legalization and regulation of the adult use of cannabis.     http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/health-and-fitness/29068-california-society-of-addiction-medicine-calls-for-the-constructive-regulation-of-marijuana.html The pre
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Planet Greentrees Webisode #69 Listen To The Archive

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/planetgreentrees/2011/11/23/planet-greentrees-webisode-69-special-tuesday-show   archive is available,         In Studio Live Music From The Hosts     Sponsors: The Michigan Medical Marijuana Association   Joe Cain   and   A huge thanks to all the moderators of the forums.!!   In the Stuido :   Komorn Law.   Chad from Birmingham Compassion Club   Peanut Butter.   Rich Thompson Michigan Medical Marihuana Magazine   Jamie Lowell Thi
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Polls Show Legalize For Medical Use.

Polls Show Legalize for Medical Use http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=C73A0A3E-0A77-48F5-9D2E-344A39BA3EA8 Poll: Legalize pot -- for medical useBy: Tim MakNovember 18, 2011 07:44 AM EST A strong majority of Americans believe marijuana should be legal for medical purposes, but just over half say that pot use for recreation should be illegal, according to a new poll Friday. Seventy-seven percent say doctors should be allowed to prescribe small amounts of marijuana for patients suffe
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Study: Legalizing Medical Marijuana Would Not Turn Teens Into Potheads!

Study: Legalizing Medical Marijuana Would NOT Turn Teens Into Potheads!   <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;">   According to a new study out of Brown University, legalizing medical marijuana would most likely not turn all of America's teenagers into potheads. The study compared rates of marijuana use in Massachusetts to those in Rhode Island—where medical marijuana was legalized in 2006—and found that it had no influence
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Guest Opinion: The People Chose Medical Marijuana

The Oakland Press (theoaklandpress.com), Serving Oakland County   http://www.theoaklan...=defaultOpinion       Sunday, October 23, 2011     I take issue with the conclusions made by The Oakland Press concerning both the efficacy of medical marihuana and the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act. While I commend the paper for creating a forum to openly discuss medical marihuana, missing from the editorial, “Medical marijuana series sheds light on new law,” were thoughts from those directly affe
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Good Advice - Grasshopper

Good Advice   This was passed on by a friend. Good advice... ONE Light Bulb at a Time? A physics teacher in high school, once told the students that while one grasshopper on the railroad tracks wouldn't slow a train very much, but billion of them would. With that thought in mind, read the following. This past weekend I was at Kroger. I needed 60 W light bulbs and Bounce dryer sheets. I was in the light bulb aisle, and right next to the GE brand Informally buy was an off-brand labeled, "Eve
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Marihuana Possession In Michigan: It Was Intended To Be Medical After The Fact

I was quite surprised and upset to see a fellow brethren attorney blogging so incorrectly about the interpretation of the MMMA. Whats more, he was agreeing with a short sited, narrow interpretation of the law. You can link to his piece here.   The suggestion that a person cannot utilize the protections of the medical use of marihuana defense if they get their card after there arrest is simply not true. Nowhere in section 8 of the affirmative defenses does that statute specifically state, su
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It Is Time To Stop Treating Medical Marijuana Patients Differently - A Bill Of Rights For Patients

Though Michigan’s medical marijuana law has now been on the books for a full calendar year, there is still much to be accomplished in terms of ensuring the process works more smoothly and the law does what it was intended to do: protect those using medical marijuana.   I continue to see patients and caregivers wrongly raided and charged with various crimes and, in turn, denied access to the medicine they are legally allowed to have. I have successfully defended many of these individuals includ
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