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		<title>FreePress: Schuette Wages War Against The People&#8217;s Law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If there&#8217;s anything Bill Schuette has established in his first year as Michigan&#8217;s attorney general &#8212; besides an appetite for media attention rivaling that of Sarah Palin or Geoffrey Fieger &#8212; it&#8217;s that he won&#8217;t stand for the federal government to trample on the rights of the people of Michigan. Unless, or course, the right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Law enforcement: Despite confusion, one thing is clear, profiting is illegal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, October 5, 2011 By JAMESON COOK Justice Peter D. O&#8217;Connell of the state Court of Appeals last year used a popular culture reference to explain what he called Michigan medical marijuana law&#8217;s &#8220;obfuscations, ambiguous language and confusingly overlapping sections.&#8221; &#8220;Reading this act is similar to participating in the Triwizard Tournament described in &#8216;Harry Potter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cannabiscounsel.com/2011/10/06/law-enforcement-despite-confusion-one-thing-is-clear-profiting-is-illegal/</link>
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		<title>Attorney disappointed by Twinn Bridges ruling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Attorney disappointed by Twinn Bridges ruling Midland Daily News by Kelly Dame Posted: Monday, September 12, 2011 11:32 am The attorney representing a local man and the marijuana dispensary he ran is disappointed with a judge&#8217;s ruling to close the shop and is calling for the legalization of marijuana. Owner Chris Gee had already shut [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cannabiscounsel.com/2011/09/12/attorney-disappointed-by-twinn-bridges-ruling/</link>
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		<title>COMMENTARY: A different view on medical marijuana By Thomas Lavigne, JD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday, September 3, 2011 11:38 AM EDT By Thomas Lavigne, JD Cannabis Counsel PLC Law Firm, Detroit Your recent article on medical cannabis is very inaccurate in several regards. Dr. Fredrick Neumann of Sterling Heights is a family practitioner who writes recommendations for approximately 10 percent of his longtime patients. Doctors are already being attacked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appeals court: Medical marijuana users must have I.D. to grow plants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[August 31, 2011 BY JOE SWICKARD DETROIT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER In a second major medical marijuana decision this month, the Michigan Court of Appeals said that users must have their state-issued identification cards before they can legally grow their own drugs. With their ruling in a Montmorency County case, appellate judges upheld a Circuit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MI Attorney General, Bill Schuette: Ruling Against Medical Marijuana Dispensary a Victory for Public Safety, Local Communities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Contact: John Sellek or Joy Yearout 517-373-8060 Agency: Attorney General August 24, 2011LANSING &#8211; 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&#8217;s public nuisance law.  The case arose from Schuette and Isabella [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cannabiscounsel.com/2011/08/30/mi-attorney-general-bill-schuette-ruling-against-medical-marijuana-dispensary-a-victory-for-public-safety-local-communities/</link>
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		<title>Why Michigan&#8217;s medical marijuana law is so cloudy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BY DAWSON BELL DETROIT FREE PRESS LANSING BUREAU It might seem odd that the pro-medical marijuana authors of Michigan&#8217;s medical marijuana act didn&#8217;t include explicit language authorizing the sale of marijuana to medical marijuana patients. Not really, said Karen O&#8217;Keefe, a Michigan native and state policy director for the Marijuana Policy Project in Washington and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cannabiscounsel.com/2011/08/29/why-michigans-medical-marijuana-law-is-so-cloudy/</link>
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		<title>Michigan appeals court says medical marijuana can&#8217;t be sold at dispensaries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cannabiscounsel.com/2011/08/29/michigan-appeals-court-says-medical-marijuana-cant-be-sold-at-dispensaries/</link>
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		<title>State lawmakers continue to work to clarify the state medical marijuana law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Newshawk: Write to Marc:http://www.freemarc.ca/ Pubdate: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 Source: Livonia Observer (MI) Copyright: 2011 Observer &#38; 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 MARIJUANA LAW State lawmakers continue to work to clarify the state medical marijuana law. State Rep. John Walsh, R-Livonia, said lawmakers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cannabiscounsel.com/2011/08/23/state-lawmakers-continue-to-work-to-clarify-the-state-medical-marijuana-law/</link>
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		<title>Ten Years Ago, Portugal Legalized All Drugs:  What happened next?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the nation legalized all drugs within its borders, most critics predicted disaster. But a decade later, drug use has plunged dramatically.  To read more: Ten Years Ago Portugal Legalized All Drugs &#8212; What Happened Next? &#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cannabiscounsel.com/2011/08/11/ten-years-ago-portugal-legalized-all-drugs-what-happened-next/</link>
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