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61 US MI: PUB LTE: Time To Rethink Drug EnforcementThu, 24 Dec 2015
Source:Detroit News (MI) Author:Nelson, Ted Area:Michigan Lines:40 Added:12/27/2015

Re: The Detroit News' Dec 12 story, "FBI agent shot in Detroit drug raid": We seem to hear stories like this one about the enormous drug bust and injured FBI agent so often that it makes you wonder whether police officers really still believe we're making a dent in the drug market.

It makes you wonder whether it's even worth it, considering a veteran officer was shot during this big drug bust.

Officers are hurt and killed in the line of duty, and we can do something about it.

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62 US MI: Column: You Can't Put The Smoke Back In The BongWed, 23 Dec 2015
Source:Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Author:Gabriel, Larry Area:Michigan Lines:167 Added:12/23/2015

There is little doubt in my mind that marijuana - cannabis, weed, pot, ganja, skunk, bud, herb, sticky icky, mota (in Mexico), le shit (in France), whatever you want to call it - is on the road to legalization. There are a lot of reasons for that. One of them is the changes taking place around the world.

In Italy the army has been given the task of growing medical marijuana because the cost of imported medical marijuana is too high and government officials want to bring the price down. Israel has a well-developed medical marijuana system, and much of what we are learning about the plant is coming from research there. Uruguay has legalized recreational marijuana and other South American countries - Argentina, Brazil - are considering it. Canada's Liberal Party, which won recent elections, is moving forward quickly on legalizing recreational use of marijuana. Jamaica, possibly the central beacon of marijuana use worldwide due to Rastafarians and reggae music, has come around on medical use.

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63 US MI: Column: A Matter Of JusticeWed, 09 Dec 2015
Source:Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Author:Gabriel, Larry Area:Michigan Lines:167 Added:12/09/2015

It's been pretty well documented that the War on Drugs is in large part a war on black people (read Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow). New allegations from Dothan, Alabama, could be revealing one of the most insidious cases ever to come to light.

The Henry County Report (HCR), a police watchdog blog, recently ran a piece that had some of the most salacious allegations one can find: crooked cops in a secret club, cover-ups, evidence planting, and young African-American men systematically victimized by the police.

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64 US MI: PUB LTE: Campaigning For CannabisWed, 02 Dec 2015
Source:Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Author:White, Stan Area:Michigan Lines:31 Added:12/06/2015

In a recent Higher Ground column, Larry Gabriel wrote about why people should sign MILegalize petition to end Michigan's cannabis prohibition ("Make the right choice: Support MILegalize,"Nov. 25). Reader Stan White wrote in to offer his endorsement:

As a Colorado resident and longtime cannabis (marijuana) activist, I support the Comprehensive Cannabis Law Reform Initiative Committee and the MILegalize movement ending cannabis prohibition in Michigan. It's important for voters to realize and avoid controversial opportunities, the likes of which have fractured the cannabis movement in Ohio and California that failed. With MILegalize, I'm confident that just like in Colorado, every subsequent poll will show Michigan citizens continue supporting the end of cannabis prohibition.

Stan White

Dillon, Colorado

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65 US MI: PUB LTE: Campaigning For CannabisWed, 02 Dec 2015
Source:Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Author:Clark, William Area:Michigan Lines:55 Added:12/05/2015

I favor the MILegalize petition. Please visit its website and contribute to its campaign fund.

Michigan is a right-to-farm state. If your land is suitable and you raise crops according to state standards, you may compete in the state's open market. I'd say legalize marijuana but don't corporatize it. Never interfere with patients' rights to grow their own. And tell the police to take a hike. They are addicted to profiting from Michigan's antiquated, unconstitutional forfeiture law. Their reps have repeatedly hijacked lawmakers' votes to fine tune the MMMA by showing up en masse and playing "tough cop" in legislators' offices just before a vote.

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66 US MI: Make The Right Choice: Support MIlegalizeWed, 25 Nov 2015
Source:Seattle Weekly (WA) Author:Gabriel, Larry Area:Michigan Lines:161 Added:11/27/2015

We're heading into the final rounds of the petition drives to legalize recreational marijuana here in Michigan. The MILegalize petition drive is expected to round things up by the end of December. The competing petition circulated by the Michigan Cannabis Coalition (MCC) is expected to finish up in January.

In case you were wondering, the MILegalize petition is clearly the one you should support and the law you should vote for when the time comes.

The MILegalize campaign comes from the Comprehensive Cannabis Law Reform Initiative Committee, which is mainly made up of the activists who have been fighting to change the marijuana laws in Michigan for many years. These are the people who have stood with the many municipal initiatives to legalize marijuana in cities across the state. These are the people who have rallied to support those who have been unjustly prosecuted in spite of the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act (MMMA). They have fundraised, and stood on the state Capitol steps, and lobbied in the legislature. Michigan NORML, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, and the Michigan Green Party have endorsed MILegalize.

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67 US MI: Column: Make the Right Choice: Support MILegalizeWed, 25 Nov 2015
Source:Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Author:Gabriel, Larry Area:Michigan Lines:164 Added:11/26/2015

We're heading into the final rounds of the petition drives to legalize recreational marijuana here in Michigan. The MILegalize petition drive is expected to round things up by the end of December. The competing petition circulated by the Michigan Cannabis Coalition (MCC) is expected to finish up in January.

In case you were wondering, the MILegalize petition is clearly the one you should support and the law you should vote for when the time comes.

The MILegalize campaign comes from the Comprehensive Cannabis Law Reform Initiative Committee, which is mainly made up of the activists who have been fighting to change the marijuana laws in Michigan for many years. These are the people who have stood with the many municipal initiatives to legalize marijuana in cities across the state. These are the people who have rallied to support those who have been unjustly prosecuted in spite of the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act (MMMA). They have fundraised, and stood on the state Capitol steps, and lobbied in the legislature. Michigan NORML, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, and the Michigan Green Party have endorsed MILegalize.

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68 US MI: Column: Growing PotentialWed, 18 Nov 2015
Source:Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Author:Gabriel, Larry Area:Michigan Lines:165 Added:11/19/2015

There's a lot of talk about high rollers trying to get in on the growing marijuana market. Here's the tale of a couple of low rollers who'd like to get in on a market that - as Donald Trump would say - is gonna be HUGE!

Andrea and Ervin Allen run a family- and home-based business on the east side of Detroit. It's called A&E products; they're in the medical marijuana business. Andrea is a medical marijuana caregiver and Ervin is a patient. Their tale of interest in the plant goes back about 13 years when Andrea's father died from cancer.

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69 US MI: Column: Out, Damned SpotWed, 04 Nov 2015
Source:Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Author:Gabriel, Larry Area:Michigan Lines:114 Added:11/06/2015

I saw purple spots. I saw yellow spots. I saw green spots. I saw orange spots.

No, I wasn't tripping on some hallucinogen. I was looking at the map of Detroit on display at the City Planning Commission's public hearing on the zoning ordinance for the city's Medical Marijuana Caregiver Centers. Each of the colored spots represented the schools, churches, parks, liquor stores, strip joints, and whatever else the proposed centers would have to be at least 1,000 feet away from as the zoning ordinance is currently written.

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70US MI: Marijuana Legalization Effort Shifts On StrategyFri, 30 Oct 2015
Source:Detroit News (MI) Author:Livengood, Chad Area:Michigan Lines:Excerpt Added:10/30/2015

Lansing - A group seeking to put recreational marijuana legalization on the November 2016 ballot abruptly stopped collecting signatures at the end of September, prompting a competing pro-pot group to speculate the other campaign is faltering.

"We've heard rumors they were out of money. We haven't seen them on the street," said Jeff Hank, chair of the MI Legalize campaign. "To take a month off from petitioning is odd."

But Republican political consultant Matt Marsden, who is heading the Michigan Cannabis Coalition, says the campaign is taking a "pause" to study the 210,000 voters who have already signed in pursuit of the minimum 252,523 valid voter signatures needed to get on the ballot.

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71 US MI: Column: Playing Catch-upWed, 21 Oct 2015
Source:Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Author:Gabriel, Larry Area:Michigan Lines:120 Added:10/21/2015

It seems that some Michigan political bodies have finally been pushed to give up their wait-and-see approach to marijuana. The wait-and-see was really more of a stall-and-demure and even an ignore-it-and-maybe-it-will-go-away tactic. But citizen actions have finally forced lawmakers to step up. In Detroit and Lansing legislators are addressing the fact that medical marijuana patients actually have to buy their marijuana somewhere.

In Detroit that means that the first of two sets of regulations for medical marijuana facilities was passed. It's about time; there are an estimated 148 of them, about one for each of the city's 139 square miles, and they're not clearly legal or illegal.

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72 US MI: Column: Full Of GraceWed, 14 Oct 2015
Source:Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Author:Gabriel, Larry Area:Michigan Lines:119 Added:10/14/2015

"I don't have that much longer to live so I have to think about what it is I have to do before I go gently into that dark night. And what I'd like to do, I think, is help people understand that ideas and thinking historically and philosophically is as important to rebuilding a country and a community and making a revolution as activism. Most people think of revolution as taking power from somebody else. And I think of revolution as transformation of ourselves."

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73 US MI: Detroiters, Advocates Pack Medical Marijuana HearingMon, 12 Oct 2015
Source:Detroit Free Press (MI) Author:Guillen, Joe Area:Michigan Lines:84 Added:10/13/2015

Concerned Detroiters who cringe at the rapid spread of marijuana dispensaries and medical card-holders who rely on the product for treatment packed a public hearing today to debate proposed regulations of the city's medical marijuana industry.

The Detroit City Council is considering a proposal that includes a way to license the city's approximately 150 medical marijuana shops. The proposal also has zoning restrictions on how close they can operate near schools, churches and other dispensaries.

Eunice Gantt, a lifelong Detroiter, said the growing number of marijuana dispensaries hurts the city's reputation.

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74 US MI: Editorial: Battle Is on for Control of Michigan'sSun, 11 Oct 2015
Source:Detroit Free Press (MI)          Area:Michigan Lines:46 Added:10/13/2015

Nearly eight years after Michigan voters overwhelmingly concluded that marijuana should be available to patients whose doctors prescribe it, state lawmakers are finally addressing some of the most egregious defects in Michigan's Medical Marihuana Act.

A package of bills that won lopsided approval in the state House of Representatives last week would establish a rational (if unnecessarily complicated) regulatory scheme for licensing growers, processors, retailers and even those who transport marijuana from one facility to another. The House-approved plan also imposes a 3% tax on retailers' gross income and authorizes doctors to prescribe non-smokable forms of the drug that the Michigan Supreme Court says remain prohibited under the 2008 law.

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75 US MI: Column: The Heart Of The MatterWed, 30 Sep 2015
Source:Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Author:Gabriel, Larry Area:Michigan Lines:115 Added:10/01/2015

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor recently brought up marijuana while speaking to students at Amherst College in Maryland. As she talked about the need to be passionate, she said, "Pick something in your life that you don't like and that you work to change."

She acknowledged that some young people were passionate about legalizing marijuana. But then she shrugged her shoulders dismissively as though marijuana legalization was small potatoes - more or less bullshit.

I got a similar reaction a few years ago in conversation with a lawyer who has spent his career fighting for civil liberties. When the subject of marijuana came up, he kind of grinned and said, "That's not my issue." The way he said it seemed to imply that he wouldn't give such a lame concern the time of day.

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76 US MI: Warren Sued Over Medical MarijuanaTue, 29 Sep 2015
Source:Macomb Daily, The (MI) Author:Franz, Norb Area:Michigan Lines:92 Added:09/30/2015

Medical marijuana patients claim city officials have targeted them in violation of state law.

Warren officials including police harassed medical marijuana patients - - some suffering from cancer -- with tickets and other methods in violation of state law, according to a lawsuit filed Monday against the city.

The 23 patients from Macomb County, including seven caregivers plus two businesses, are plaintiffs in the legal action taken in Macomb County Circuit Court.

"The city has created an environment of intimidation and fear, that people are afraid to get the medicine they need," said their attorney, Michael Greiner.

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77US MI: Column: Inmates Freed From Prison To LeadTue, 29 Sep 2015
Source:Detroit News (MI) Author:Skenazy, Lenore Area:Michigan Lines:Excerpt Added:09/29/2015

We may not think of ourselves as a vindictive country, but consider this: To even get us back to the incarceration rate of 1972 - hardly ancient history - we would have to reduce the number of people in prison by 80 percent. That's how overboard we've gone when it comes to locking people up. Trying to dial us back from this hyper-incarceration is a group called JustLeadershipUSA. It teaches former prisoners how to open America's eyes to our jail addiction. The other night, I attended the graduation for 19 fellows who'd just finished the yearlong course in leadership. They'd been chosen from 117 applicants nationwide on the basis of the good they'd been doing since they got out of prison.

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78 US MI: Column: Looking AheadWed, 16 Sep 2015
Source:Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Author:Gabriel, Larry Area:Michigan Lines:119 Added:09/16/2015

There's good reason to pose this question. There are two petition initiatives aimed at legalizing marijuana for recreational use on the 2016 ballot - and a June poll showed state voters support legalization 56 percent to 36 percent.

Faced with what looks like an inevitable course, politicians in Lansing are discussing doing the same thing legislatively. There are four states that have already legalized recreational use; Ohio is voting on it in November, and several other states will be voting on it in 2016. Presidential elections bring out the largest crowds, and polls say that the majority of voters favor legalization. By the way, 2016 will be the first election where marijuana is an issue. Candidates will be asked about it, especially when visiting states where medical or recreational laws are in effect or on the ballot.

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79 US MI: Column: Let's Do The Time Warp AgainWed, 02 Sep 2015
Source:Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Author:Gabriel, Larry Area:Michigan Lines:107 Added:09/02/2015

Actress Susan Sarandon recently tweeted a message to rappers A$AP Rocky and Action Bronson, saying, "thx for the shout out on '1Train.' Not sure what it means, but let's blaze one & talk about it some time."

It comes as no surprise that Sarandon, or Rocky and Bronson would want to blaze one. Sarandon has been an outspoken supporter of marijuana use for years - it probably helped her get through the chilly days on the set of the classic movie Rocky Horror Picture Show. Rocky and Bronson put out tracks that boast about their involvement with the stuff, so there's no surprise there. What's interesting is that the 68-year-old Sarandon reached out across the age and cultural divide to invite the youthful performers for a smoke.

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80 US MI: PUB LTE: Medical Pot Will Help Autistic ChildrenTue, 25 Aug 2015
Source:Detroit News (MI) Author:Komorn, Michael Area:Michigan Lines:64 Added:08/25/2015

In the United States, and in Michigan, autism is growing. In fact, it is growing at such an alarming rate that it has just recently been identified as a significant public health issue, due to statistics provided by the Center for Disease Control's Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, a nationwide federal program that tracks autism rates around the country.

Estimates show that autism rates have risen in every report since tracking began in 2002, from one in 150 in 2002 to one in 68 in 2010. There is not a cure, however, new studies show, autism can be treated.

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