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Just thought iw ould post some stuff from 2008 when Schuette stepped up to run the failing campaign against marijuana:

After the proposal went unchallenged for more than a year, a coalition of medical, law-enforcement and anti-drug organizations called Citizens Protecting Michigan Kids formed last week. It's headed by Michigan Court of Appeals Judge Bill Schuette.

“Proposal 1 is so loosely crafted and so loosely written, the unintended consequences of passage of Proposal 1 are so grave, that the only vote for the citizens of Michigan in November is no,"Schuette said
yesterday in an interview.

The group also includes several medical and law enforcement organizations such as the Michigan State Medical Society, the Prosecuting Attorneys Association and the Michigan Sheriff’s Association.

 

 

http://www.ourmidland.com/local_news/article_79183b3e-a0ec-5ad9-883a-b405e91a9ae9.html?mode=print

 

 

On the Ballot: Medical Marijuana

Ralph E. Wirtz
of the Daily News | Posted: Friday, October 31, 2008 12:00 am

 

In Midland County, those opposing Proposal 1, a petition to allow certain medical patients access to marijuana to help control pain and nausea, are presenting a "united front."

 

That is, they are against Proposal 1, but not necessarily against using marijuana to relieve pain, nausea, loss of appetite and other symptoms.

 

According to language in the proposal, which will be on the ballot Tuesday, patients with "certain debilitating conditions" could, with approval from their doctors, use, obtain or grow marijuana for medicinal purposes after registering with the state.

Backers of the proposal - the petition drive was organized by the Michigan Coalition for Compassionate Care - say the law is a compassionate one that would protect people suffering from cancer, HIV/AIDS and multiple sclerosis from the threat of arrest and jail for simply trying to alleviate their pain.

 

But opponents say it goes further than that.

 

"Let's just say there are laws of unintended consequences associated with Proposal 1. We are keenly sensitive to the problems associated with pain management," U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Bill Schuette said recently during an interview at the Daily News. "And everybody probably knows somebody suffering from pain. But Proposal 1 is so broad, so loosely and poorly written. It's my job to review laws, and this Proposal 1, it's a doozy."

 

Also opposing the law are Midland County Sheriff Jerry Nielsen and Dr. Ahmed Abdel-Maksoud of MPG Hematology Oncology MidMichigan Medical Center. They appeared with Schuette at the Daily News interview.

 

Schuette has teamed with Jim Barrett, former chief of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, and others to form a group called Citizens Protecting Michigan's Kids to highlight what they believe to be the deficiencies in the proposal. They have been touring the state in recent weeks to fight the proposal, which in the last poll (Oct. 25) enjoyed a 54 percent to 38 percent lead.

 

When asked who was leading the group attempting to pass the legislation, spokesperson Diane Byrum said she could not provide the names. The bulk of the financing for the group, however, is being provided by the Washington, D.C., group Marijuana Policy Project, a group that is agitating for legalizing marijuana across the nation and which is the force behind medical marijuana laws passed in 11 other states.

 

Schuette said he sees "an eruption of pot shops" in Michigan, storefront businesses that cater to those with medical marijuana cards, growing marijuana use among teen-agers and the greater inability by law enforcement personnel to enforce marijuana laws because of the "medical" defense that can be used in court.

 

"Like in California, there is nothing in this law that prohibits these businesses (pot shops) from being established," Schuette said. "There'll be more pot shops than Starbucks."

 

The Citizens Protecting Michigan's Kids have been running television advertisments recently warning of the problem.

Byrum, a former Michigan state senator, said you cannot compare California's situation with Michigan's and that Schuette's statement and the advertising are false. In a press release dated Oct. 29, she states, "Once again, the opposition has stooped to concocting phony situations that simply are impossible under Proposal 1. This commercial is an outright lie. Proposal 1 prohibits dispensaries and prohibits the sale of medical marijuana, period."

 

Sandra K. Cotter, an attorney with the law firm Dykema Gossett PLLC, said in a letter to the coalition that "Proposal 1 does not permit pot shops or any sales of marijuana. The language was carefully crafted to prohibit the sale of marijuana and, in fact, even provides for heightened penalties for patients or caregivers who violate the law and sell marijuana to someone not allowed to use marijuana for medical purposes. (See Section 4(k).)

 

However, the wording of Section 4(k) would seem to allow sales between patients, or caregivers, who are licensed by the state, with no prohibition on where or how. It states, "Any registered qualifying patient or registered primary caregiver who sells marihuana (sic) to someone who is not allowed to use marihuana (sic) for medical purposes under this act shall have his or her registry identification card revoked and is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 2 years or a fine of not more than $2,000.00, or both, in addition to any other penalties for the distribution of marihuana (sic)."

 

That is how the pot shops operate in California, and they have proliferated.

Byrum said that the law written for Michigan is much more precise than the law written 10 year ago in California - it's 10 times longer - and that the writers learned from the 12 other states that have approved medical marijuana.

 

Byrum said the marijuana would be highly regulated. First, a licensed physician would have to certify that the drug is needed, then the person would have to register with the state of Michigan's Department of Community Health and pay for the cost of that registration. A patient can't be in possession of more than "2.5 ounces of usable marihuana (sic)" or 12 marijuana plants kept in an enclosed, locked facility.

 

She was less than clear, however, on what people might do with the excess of marijuana plants. One plant, according to Nielsen, can bring about $1,000 on the street.

 

Nielsen's concern is that prosecuting people who are operating vehicles will get harder, considering there are no tests that determine how much a person has smoked, and with a defense that is automatic in court, even for people who do not have a certificate.

 

That could happen. According to the language in the initiative, " (i) A person shall not be subject to arrest, prosecution, or penalty in any manner, or denied any right or privilege, including but not limited to civil penalty or disciplinary action by a business or occupational or professional licensing board or bureau, solely for being in the presence or vicinity of the medical use of marihuana (sic) in accordance with this act, or for assisting a registered qualifying patient with using or administering marihuana (sic)."

 

Mahmud has different concerns. He said there is medicine on the market today that includes the active ingredient in marijuana that works. As a doctor, he says he has a risk-benefit ratio, and that the physical harm that smoking marijuana can pose is not worth the benefit.

 

"We should not use a carcinogen to treat cancer pain," saying that marijuana can cause mouth, throat or pancreatic cancer, that it raises the heart rate and plood pressure, among other medical complications.

 

Byrum disagrees, saying studies have shown that it can help. Indeed, people who have used medical marijuana are featured in the group's ads.

 

Schuette said the way to draft a medical marijuana law would be to get hospital, legal and health officials, among others, together to iron out the problems before a proposal is presented to the public.

 

"That's not how they approached it," he said. Instead, he argued an outside group is "imposing its will on this state."

 

Byrum said that since this is not a constitutional proposal, it can be changed if there are certain parts of the law that people want changed.

 

In campaign finance reports for the period through Oct. 19, proponents reported raising $1.5 million, most of which came from the Marijuana Policy Project in Washington, D.C. The opposition group raised $125,500 for the same period.

 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

 

 

Proposal 1 Ballot Language:

A LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVE TO PERMIT THE USE AND CULTIVATION OF MARIJUANA FOR SPECIFIED MEDICAL CONDITIONS

The proposed law would:

-Permit physician approved use of marijuana by registered patients with debilitating medical conditions including cancer, glaucoma, HIV, AIDS, hepatitis C, MS and other conditions as may be approved by the Department of Community Health.

-Permit registered individuals to grow limited amounts of marijuana for qualifying patients in an enclosed, locked facility.

-Require Department of Community Health to establish an identification card system for patients qualified to use marijuana and individuals qualified to grow marijuana.

-Permit registered and unregistered patients and primary caregivers to assert medical reasons for using marijuana as a defense to any prosecution involving marijuana.

Should this proposal be adopted?

--Yes

--No

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http://www.newreviewsite.com/articles/Will-the-Real-Bill-Schuette-Please-Stand-Up/806

 

In an October 7, 2008 article published in the Michigan Daily, Schuette stated:

 

“There’s nothing in this statute that would restrict, nothing that would prohibit and nothing that would prevent these pot shops and pot clubs and smoking co-ops that have erupted in California from coming to Michigan.”

 

 

Another prior quote, from an October 29, 2008 press release on behalf of his group, Citizens Protecting Michigan’s Kids, and echoed by media outlets statewide: 

 

“California Experience + Proposal 1 = Michigan Pot Shops”

 

“…Despite the California lesson, nowhere in the text of Proposal 1 have advocates prohibited the creation of pot shops in Michigan.  ‘There is not a single paragraph, sentence or word within Proposal 1 that prohibits pot shops from opening in Michigan, just like they did in California,’ "  said Judge Bill Schuette, co-chair of Citizens Protecting Michigan’s Kids and a member of Michigan’s Court of Appeals.”

 

 

Just prior to that, Citizens Protecting Michigan’s Kids issued the following statements, in relevant part, in an October 2, 2008 press release:

 

“…Among many of the potential consequences that could result from passage of this flawed proposal, Citizens Protecting Michigan's Kids point to loopholes that would:

 

-- Allow use of marijuana without a doctor's prescription; 

 

-- Allow a person arrested on any offense to use marijuana use as a "medical" defense in court;

 

-- Allow the opening of pot shops and smoking clubs in neighborhood strip malls, like has happened in California under a similar proposal… “

 

 

So, what is he saying now that the law has passed?

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Citizens Protecting Michigan's Kids Opposes Medical Marijuana Ballot Proposal

Calling it a "pot dream come true for drug dealers," a coalition of state law enforcement, medical and antidrug groups has launched a campaign to shoot down Proposal 1, the medical marijuana initiative on the November ballot.

Proposal 1 would allow the use of marijuana statewide for pain relief from chronic illness as approved by a doctor.

Users would carry state identification as medical marijuana users and would be exempt from prosecution for using the drug for pain relief.

Proposal 1 also would allow registered users to grow their own marijuana.

Use of medical marijuana is allowed under local ordinances in Detroit, Ferndale, Ann Arbor and Traverse City, although state law supersedes local law.

The opposition group calls itself Citizens Protecting Michigan's Kids, and its members say the proposal would put more marijuana within teens' reach.

Based on what they call failures in California's medical marijuana laws, its members -- including Michigan Court of Appeals Judge William Schuette -- warn of pot shops in shopping centers and an increase in crime.

For the full article, see Megha Satyanarayana, "Group launches campaign to stop proposal on pot", Detroit Free Press, October 3, 2008.

 

 

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DETROIT - Voters in Michigan overwhelmingly approved a medical marijuana ballot measure -- making it one of a quarter of states to allow severely ill patients to use the illegal drug.

With 87 percent of the precincts reporting, 63 percent, or 2,557,410 people, voted "yes" on Proposal 1, which removes state penalties for registered patients to buy, grow and use small amounts of marijuana. Thirty-seven percent, or 1,519,273 voters, were opposed.

Opponents again were unable to derail the measure. In fact, only one state, South Dakota, has failed to OK a ballot attempt.

 

Of the 12 other states with medical marijuana laws, eight stemmed from ballot initiatives; four were enacted by state legislatures.

"I think it's a real victory for the patients and their families," said Dianne Byrum, spokeswoman for the support group Michigan Coalition for Compassionate Care. "I just had a feeling from the very beginning this was going to pass, and it was going to resonate with the voters. ... "Voters knew right from the beginning the medical value of marijuana."

 

Michigan Court of Appeals Judge Bill Schuette, chairman of the opposition group Citizens Protecting Michigan's Kids, said he was disappointed with the outcome but not the effort.

"It appears we came up short," he said. "We waged a good campaign, a hard-fought campaign. But we were severely underfunded, and that's always a challenge."

 

The coalition included more than two dozen medical, law enforcement, anti-drug and other organizations, including the Michigan State Medical Society, the Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan and Citizens for Traditional Values.

Opponents launched their first TV ad last week that says so-called "pot shops" exploded in California when that state passed a medical marijuana law. Critics such as law enforcement officials say Michigan's law wouldn't prevent the proliferation of stores that grow and sell marijuana.

 

Backers responded that the Michigan measure was significantly different from California's law. Proposal 1 advocates ran ads urging voters to support the measure. They featured Rochelle Lampkin of Detroit, who suffers from multiple sclerosis and experiences blindness from optic neuritis, and George Wagoner, a retired physician from Manistee who helped his wife of 51 years by procuring medical marijuana to ease her symptoms of chemotherapy as she underwent treatment for ovarian cancer.

 

In campaign finance reports for the period through Oct. 19, proponents reported raising $1.5 million, most of which came from the Marijuana Policy Project in Washington, D.C. The opposition group raised $125,500 for the same period.

 

While the measure will remove state-level penalties for registered patients using marijuana, it won't create legal dispensaries for the drug. Nor will it affect the federal ban on marijuana, which makes possessing marijuana for any purpose illegal.

 

Larry Lenchner, 56, of Birmingham, voted for the measure.

 

"If you got cancer and you're dying and you want to smoke weed, it's just another pharmaceutical to me," he said.

 

Claire Luczak, a 20-year-old junior at the University of Michigan, said she voted against the proposal because she thought it was too lax.

 

"It would be too easy to get it," she said. "I know hundreds of people who smoke pot, and I think people would get it for recreational use and not legitimate reasons."

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Just thought iw ould post some stuff from 2008 when Schuette stepped up to run the failing campaign against marijuana:

 

http://www.ourmidland.com/local_news/article_79183b3e-a0ec-5ad9-883a-b405e91a9ae9.html?mode=print

 

 

On the Ballot: Medical Marijuana

Ralph E. Wirtz

of the Daily News | Posted: Friday, October 31, 2008 12:00 am

 

In Midland County, those opposing Proposal 1, a petition to allow certain medical patients access to marijuana to help control pain and nausea, are presenting a "united front."

 

That is, they are against Proposal 1, but not necessarily against using marijuana to relieve pain, nausea, loss of appetite and other symptoms.

 

According to language in the proposal, which will be on the ballot Tuesday, patients with "certain debilitating conditions" could, with approval from their doctors, use, obtain or grow marijuana for medicinal purposes after registering with the state.

Backers of the proposal - the petition drive was organized by the Michigan Coalition for Compassionate Care - say the law is a compassionate one that would protect people suffering from cancer, HIV/AIDS and multiple sclerosis from the threat of arrest and jail for simply trying to alleviate their pain.

 

But opponents say it goes further than that.

 

"Let's just say there are laws of unintended consequences associated with Proposal 1. We are keenly sensitive to the problems associated with pain management," U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Bill Schuette said recently during an interview at the Daily News. "And everybody probably knows somebody suffering from pain. But Proposal 1 is so broad, so loosely and poorly written. It's my job to review laws, and this Proposal 1, it's a doozy."

 

Also opposing the law are Midland County Sheriff Jerry Nielsen and Dr. Ahmed Abdel-Maksoud of MPG Hematology Oncology MidMichigan Medical Center. They appeared with Schuette at the Daily News interview.

 

Schuette has teamed with Jim Barrett, former chief of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, and others to form a group called Citizens Protecting Michigan's Kids to highlight what they believe to be the deficiencies in the proposal. They have been touring the state in recent weeks to fight the proposal, which in the last poll (Oct. 25) enjoyed a 54 percent to 38 percent lead.

 

When asked who was leading the group attempting to pass the legislation, spokesperson Diane Byrum said she could not provide the names. The bulk of the financing for the group, however, is being provided by the Washington, D.C., group Marijuana Policy Project, a group that is agitating for legalizing marijuana across the nation and which is the force behind medical marijuana laws passed in 11 other states.

 

Schuette said he sees "an eruption of pot shops" in Michigan, storefront businesses that cater to those with medical marijuana cards, growing marijuana use among teen-agers and the greater inability by law enforcement personnel to enforce marijuana laws because of the "medical" defense that can be used in court.

 

"Like in California, there is nothing in this law that prohibits these businesses (pot shops) from being established," Schuette said. "There'll be more pot shops than Starbucks."

 

The Citizens Protecting Michigan's Kids have been running television advertisments recently warning of the problem.

Byrum, a former Michigan state senator, said you cannot compare California's situation with Michigan's and that Schuette's statement and the advertising are false. In a press release dated Oct. 29, she states, "Once again, the opposition has stooped to concocting phony situations that simply are impossible under Proposal 1. This commercial is an outright lie. Proposal 1 prohibits dispensaries and prohibits the sale of medical marijuana, period."

 

Sandra K. Cotter, an attorney with the law firm Dykema Gossett PLLC, said in a letter to the coalition that "Proposal 1 does not permit pot shops or any sales of marijuana. The language was carefully crafted to prohibit the sale of marijuana and, in fact, even provides for heightened penalties for patients or caregivers who violate the law and sell marijuana to someone not allowed to use marijuana for medical purposes. (See Section 4(k).)

 

However, the wording of Section 4(k) would seem to allow sales between patients, or caregivers, who are licensed by the state, with no prohibition on where or how. It states, "Any registered qualifying patient or registered primary caregiver who sells marihuana (sic) to someone who is not allowed to use marihuana (sic) for medical purposes under this act shall have his or her registry identification card revoked and is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 2 years or a fine of not more than $2,000.00, or both, in addition to any other penalties for the distribution of marihuana (sic)."

 

That is how the pot shops operate in California, and they have proliferated.

Byrum said that the law written for Michigan is much more precise than the law written 10 year ago in California - it's 10 times longer - and that the writers learned from the 12 other states that have approved medical marijuana.

 

Byrum said the marijuana would be highly regulated. First, a licensed physician would have to certify that the drug is needed, then the person would have to register with the state of Michigan's Department of Community Health and pay for the cost of that registration. A patient can't be in possession of more than "2.5 ounces of usable marihuana (sic)" or 12 marijuana plants kept in an enclosed, locked facility.

 

She was less than clear, however, on what people might do with the excess of marijuana plants. One plant, according to Nielsen, can bring about $1,000 on the street.

 

Nielsen's concern is that prosecuting people who are operating vehicles will get harder, considering there are no tests that determine how much a person has smoked, and with a defense that is automatic in court, even for people who do not have a certificate.

 

That could happen. According to the language in the initiative, " (i) A person shall not be subject to arrest, prosecution, or penalty in any manner, or denied any right or privilege, including but not limited to civil penalty or disciplinary action by a business or occupational or professional licensing board or bureau, solely for being in the presence or vicinity of the medical use of marihuana (sic) in accordance with this act, or for assisting a registered qualifying patient with using or administering marihuana (sic)."

 

Mahmud has different concerns. He said there is medicine on the market today that includes the active ingredient in marijuana that works. As a doctor, he says he has a risk-benefit ratio, and that the physical harm that smoking marijuana can pose is not worth the benefit.

 

"We should not use a carcinogen to treat cancer pain," saying that marijuana can cause mouth, throat or pancreatic cancer, that it raises the heart rate and plood pressure, among other medical complications.

 

Byrum disagrees, saying studies have shown that it can help. Indeed, people who have used medical marijuana are featured in the group's ads.

 

Schuette said the way to draft a medical marijuana law would be to get hospital, legal and health officials, among others, together to iron out the problems before a proposal is presented to the public.

 

"That's not how they approached it," he said. Instead, he argued an outside group is "imposing its will on this state."

 

Byrum said that since this is not a constitutional proposal, it can be changed if there are certain parts of the law that people want changed.

 

In campaign finance reports for the period through Oct. 19, proponents reported raising $1.5 million, most of which came from the Marijuana Policy Project in Washington, D.C. The opposition group raised $125,500 for the same period.

 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

 

 

Proposal 1 Ballot Language:

A LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVE TO PERMIT THE USE AND CULTIVATION OF MARIJUANA FOR SPECIFIED MEDICAL CONDITIONS

The proposed law would:

-Permit physician approved use of marijuana by registered patients with debilitating medical conditions including cancer, glaucoma, HIV, AIDS, hepatitis C, MS and other conditions as may be approved by the Department of Community Health.

-Permit registered individuals to grow limited amounts of marijuana for qualifying patients in an enclosed, locked facility.

-Require Department of Community Health to establish an identification card system for patients qualified to use marijuana and individuals qualified to grow marijuana.

-Permit registered and unregistered patients and primary caregivers to assert medical reasons for using marijuana as a defense to any prosecution involving marijuana.

Should this proposal be adopted?

--Yes

--No

So what happened to all of that?  He spelled it out.  He reads laws and saw all of those things to be ok under the law?  What the hell happened?  He openly stated all of these things would be ok if the law passed.  WTF!!!!!!!

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i love it..

 

you all are awesome...

 

the generosity this site can provoke still impresses me...

 

thank you so much every one.

 

when BS was elected i personally blew off the warnings of those few informed folks who "knew better"

 

wish i would have listened..

 

i now know how important it is having an attorney general who supports "every patients personal choice"

 

it is paramount.

 

the thing is.. i saw a TV commercial today staring BS... he said.. and i somewhat will try to quote..

 

"rape victims deserve better justice"

"years behind processing the DNA evidence kits"

"my administration will put an end to the backlog of DNA evidence cases"

 

my question would be...

 

what have you been doing already about rape victims and processing the "rape kits" in a timely manner?

 

why haven't you done that and spent your time solving aggressive crimes already instead of bringing ANY CASE AGAINST A CANNABIS patient?

 

can you say ELECTION YEAR?

 

Get lost Bill Schutte.

 

Please.

he had the ballz to say it was in his DNA!  my dna is mine and shuette needs to go!  This is one of them where I vote for any one but b.s and snyder!  I hate not having great options and only better options!

 

Peace

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"We should not use a carcinogen to treat cancer pain," saying that marijuana can cause mouth, throat or pancreatic cancer, that it raises the heart rate and plood pressure, among other medical complications."
 
Instead, we should use carcinogenic cancer causing radiation to treat cancers, because they have been proven to be carcinogenic, can cause new cancers, organ failure and death in some patients?

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"We should not use a carcinogen to treat cancer pain," saying that marijuana can cause mouth, throat or pancreatic cancer, that it raises the heart rate and plood pressure, among other medical complications."

 

Instead, we should use carcinogenic cancer causing radiation to treat cancers, because they have been proven to be carcinogenic, can cause new cancers, organ failure and death in some patients?

 

 

And by all means lets also take card protections away from anyone that does NOT SMOKE the meds...............

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It's a convenient argument for those against marijuana. They argue that marinol works for cancer pts but ignore the fact that there are faster delivery methods than marinol. They address the smoking method as being faster but a carcinogen but ignore that vaping is just as fast without the smoke. It's more about people wanting to control you and your medicating methods than it is about danger. I love this "free" country.

 

edit: don't know what's up with the smurf text. I changed font size to 12 and it still is coming out super small. Don your readin glasses I guess.

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Does anyone have a "Cheat Sheet" that I could use to take with me to the polls so I know which ones are for our best interest on MMM? lol

 

November 4th, 2014 General Election - 420 Cannabis Slate of Candidates

by the Weed Warrior

 

 

"Take your Blunts to the Ballot Box"

 

420 Cannabis Slate Endorsements

 

Office Sought Candidate Name

Governor Mark Schauer

Attorney General Mark Totten Nov 2014

Secretary of State Godfrey Dillard Nov 2014

US Senate Gary Peters

US Rep Dist 13 John Conyers

US Rep Dist 14 Brenda Lawrence

MI State Rep Dist 2 Alberta Tinsley Tilab

MI State Rep Dist 3 Wendel Byrd

MI State Rep Dist 4 Rose Mary Robinson

MI State Rep Dist 5 Fred Durhal

MI State Rep Dist 6 Stephanie Chang

MI State Rep Dist 7 Laytoya Garrett

MI State Rep Dist 8 Sherry Day-Gagnogo

MI State Rep Dist 9 Harvey Santana

MI State Rep Dist 10 Leslie Love

MI Senate Dist 1 Coleman Young

MI Senate Dist 2 Bert Johnson

MI Senate Dist 3 Morris Hood

MI Senate Dist 5 David Knezek

Wayne County Exec Warren Evans

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy

Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napolean

Wayne County Probate Court Rohn Mitchell

Justice of the Supreme Court Richard Bernstine

Justice of the Supreme Court Bill Murphy

Justice of the Supreme Court(I) Deborah Thomas

Detroit Public School Board Lamar Lemmons

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Tredeau Sep 2015

 

The following voters guide is based on a candidate's support of Green Jobs through the use, cultivation and, manufacturing of the male and female cannabis plant. While states like Colorado and Washington are benefiting from the explosion in green jobs, current Michigan legislators have been very lackluster when it comes innovation and job creation benefits from the acceptance of "The Plant".

 

The candidates endorsed on this slate would be the best fit to:

1. Create a friendly environment for cannabis based businesses in the State of Michigan and regulate it's use as a free market commodity.

2. Reverse the changes in the Michigan Medical Marijuana law that imposes senseless restrictions of the transporting of marijuana in a vehicle and, other changes that are designed to increase the pipeline to prison and, asset forfeiture cash cow that communities rely on.

3. Creating Green jobs through the cultivation of Industrial Hemp for products like fuel and building materials for homes, roads repair, and automobiles.

4. Modify and remove restrictions on felons allowing them to be caregivers in the Michigan Medical Medical Marijuana program. Being honest on giving someone who made a mistake a true chance to succeed and, create jobs if so inclined to do so.

 

 

 

Where to Vote?

Before Nov 4th:

 

Detroit Elections Bureau 2978 W. Grand Blvd, Detroit, MI 48226

Vote in Person from 8am-4pm Monday through Friday.

Parking $5.00

 

Wayne County Community College Campus (2 locations):

Vote in Person from 8am-4pm Monday through Saturday

5901 Conner Detroit MI 48213 (313) 922-3311

8200 W. Outer Drive Detroit MI 48219 (313) 943-4000

Parking: Free.

Cast your ballot in person or take it home with you and mail in.

You can drop off your filled out absentee ballot there also. Save a stamp!

 

On Nov 4th: Click Here to find your Polling Location

 

Posted by Friends of George Cushingberry at 10/10/2014 01:29:00 PM

Labels: Absentee Voting, Canada, Cannabis, Detroit, Elections, Government, Industrial Hemp, Lansing Michigan, Medical Marijuana, Michigan, Politics, Wayne County

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November 4th, 2014 General Election - 420 Cannabis Slate of Candidates

by the Weed Warrior

"Take your Blunts to the Ballot Box"

420 Cannabis Slate Endorsements

Office Sought Candidate Name

Governor Mark Schauer

Attorney General Mark Totten Nov 2014

Secretary of State Godfrey Dillard Nov 2014

US Senate Gary Peters

US Rep Dist 13 John Conyers

US Rep Dist 14 Brenda Lawrence

MI State Rep Dist 2 Alberta Tinsley Tilab

MI State Rep Dist 3 Wendel Byrd

MI State Rep Dist 4 Rose Mary Robinson

MI State Rep Dist 5 Fred Durhal

MI State Rep Dist 6 Stephanie Chang

MI State Rep Dist 7 Laytoya Garrett

MI State Rep Dist 8 Sherry Day-Gagnogo

MI State Rep Dist 9 Harvey Santana

MI State Rep Dist 10 Leslie Love

MI Senate Dist 1 Coleman Young

MI Senate Dist 2 Bert Johnson

MI Senate Dist 3 Morris Hood

MI Senate Dist 5 David Knezek

Wayne County Exec Warren Evans

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy

Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napolean

Wayne County Probate Court Rohn Mitchell

Justice of the Supreme Court Richard Bernstine

Justice of the Supreme Court Bill Murphy

Justice of the Supreme Court(I) Deborah Thomas

Detroit Public School Board Lamar Lemmons

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Tredeau Sep 2015

The following voters guide is based on a candidate's support of Green Jobs through the use, cultivation and, manufacturing of the male and female cannabis plant. While states like Colorado and Washington are benefiting from the explosion in green jobs, current Michigan legislators have been very lackluster when it comes innovation and job creation benefits from the acceptance of "The Plant".

The candidates endorsed on this slate would be the best fit to:

1. Create a friendly environment for cannabis based businesses in the State of Michigan and regulate it's use as a free market commodity.

2. Reverse the changes in the Michigan Medical Marijuana law that imposes senseless restrictions of the transporting of marijuana in a vehicle and, other changes that are designed to increase the pipeline to prison and, asset forfeiture cash cow that communities rely on.

3. Creating Green jobs through the cultivation of Industrial Hemp for products like fuel and building materials for homes, roads repair, and automobiles.

4. Modify and remove restrictions on felons allowing them to be caregivers in the Michigan Medical Medical Marijuana program. Being honest on giving someone who made a mistake a true chance to succeed and, create jobs if so inclined to do so.

Where to Vote?

Before Nov 4th:

Detroit Elections Bureau 2978 W. Grand Blvd, Detroit, MI 48226

Vote in Person from 8am-4pm Monday through Friday.

Parking $5.00

Wayne County Community College Campus (2 locations):

Vote in Person from 8am-4pm Monday through Saturday

5901 Conner Detroit MI 48213 (313) 922-3311

8200 W. Outer Drive Detroit MI 48219 (313) 943-4000

Parking: Free.

Cast your ballot in person or take it home with you and mail in.

You can drop off your filled out absentee ballot there also. Save a stamp!

On Nov 4th: Click Here to find your Polling Location

Posted by Friends of George Cushingberry at 10/10/2014 01:29:00 PM

Labels: Absentee Voting, Canada, Cannabis, Detroit, Elections, Government, Industrial Hemp, Lansing Michigan, Medical Marijuana, Michigan, Politics, Wayne County

Not that its gonna matter imo.......i think they will all mostly get 're-elected' and have a mandate to continue their nonsense dialectic-

 

Remember its not who votes that counts......its who COUNTS the votes--

 

http://freetheweedusa.blogspot.com/2014/10/november-4th-2014-general-election-420.html?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The+Fate+of+Marijuana+in+Michigan+and%2C++...&utm_source=YMLP&utm_term=click+here

 

 

 

http://www.theweedblog.com/michigan-marijuana-voter-guides

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