MI Attorney General, Bill Schuette: Ruling Against Medical Marijuana Dispensary a Victory for Public Safety, Local Communities
Contact: John Sellek or Joy Yearout 517-373-8060 Agency: Attorney General August 24, 2011LANSING – Attorney General Bill Schuette today praised an important ruling from the Michigan Court of Appeals which found marijuana dispensaries conducting patient-to-patient sales are illegal and can be shut down under Michigan’s public nuisance law. The case arose from Schuette and...
Read MoreWhy Michigan’s medical marijuana law is so cloudy
BY DAWSON BELL DETROIT FREE PRESS LANSING BUREAU It might seem odd that the pro-medical marijuana authors of Michigan’s medical marijuana act didn’t include explicit language authorizing the sale of marijuana to medical marijuana patients. Not really, said Karen O’Keefe, a Michigan native and state policy director for the Marijuana Policy Project in Washington and...
Read MoreMichigan appeals court says medical marijuana can’t be sold at dispensaries
BY JOE SWICKARD AND JOHN WISELY DETROIT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER A medical marijuana operation that participates in selling the drug to consumers can be shut down as a public nuisance, the Michigan Court of Appeals said in a decision announced this morning. The three judge panel, ruling on a case out of Isabella County, said that the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act “does not include the ...
Read MoreState lawmakers continue to work to clarify the state medical marijuana law
Newshawk: Write to Marc:http://www.freemarc.ca/ Pubdate: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 Source: Livonia Observer (MI) Copyright: 2011 Observer & Eccentric Newspapers Contact:http://www.hometownlife.com/section/CUSTOMERSERVICE20 Website:http://www.hometownlife.com/section/NEWS10 Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/5277 Author: Ken Abramczyk, Livonia Observer Staff Writer STATE LOOKS AT CLARIFYING MEDICAL...
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Read MoreLegal Scholar Michelle Alexander on “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”
A new book by legal scholar and civil rights advocate Michelle Alexander argues that although Jim Crow laws have been eliminated, the racial caste system it set up was not eradicated. It’s simply been redesigned, and now racial control functions through the criminal justice system. Watch video: Legal Scholar Michelle Alexander on \”The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of...
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