Application forms for Michigan's Medical Marihuana ID Card Program have been posted here.
The Michigan Department of Community Health held a public hearing in Lansing on Monday, January 5th to solicit comments regarding the proposed rules for compliance with the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act. You can watch the testimony below.
Groups have been forming to help patients and caregivers across the state of Michigan. The ones we know about are listed below. If you know of more please let us know so we can share them with others.
There is not currently a list of physicians open to the concept of medical marijuana but there is one clinic that is being proactive in this situation.
If you know of other sites dedicated to helping patients and caregivers or physicians open to the potential of medical marijuana please contact us so we can post that information.
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News: Medical evidence on marijuana blows both ways
US Governments NUMBER ONE Marijuana Researcher says "Legalize POT"
Legalization debate is waging in America once again, but what does the research say?
By Sam McManis
McClatchy Newspapers
Page 17
2009-05-24 02:01 AM
Sparked anew by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's call for the state to study the legalization of marijuana, both sides in the smoldering pot debate point to research to bolster their positions.
Such recitation of conflicting marijuana studies can be manipulated and selected buffet-style to serve whatever political and health agenda is being touted.
Even governmental findings can be contradictory. In 1999, for instance, the Office of National Drug Control Policy asked the Institute of Medicine to review evidence. The institute found that, "except for the harms associated with smoking, the adverse effects of marijuana use are within the range of effects tolerated for other medications."
Yet in 2006, the Food and Drug Administration ruled that marijuana has no health benefits and has known and proven harms. It is classified a Schedule 1 drug - the highest risk of addiction - in the Controlled Substances Act.
Wading through the medical literature, though, makes those conclusions less cut and dried.
"When I was a resident in Kaiser in San Francisco in 1978, I gave a lecture to physicians on marijuana, and I remember my conclusion at that time was that you can find in the literature whatever you were looking for," says Dr. Donald Abrams, a University of California, San Francisco, oncologist and leading medical marijuana researcher. "'Marijuana is good for asthma.''Marijuana's bad for asthma.''Marijuana causes schizophrenia.''Marijuana (decreases) schizophrenia.' And, the evidence is still like that."
Posted by MikeyZero Tuesday, June 23, 2009 (03:35:52)
Medical Marijuana: Judge: Doctor note enough to grow pot Judge: Doctor note enough to grow pot
By MEGHA SATYANARAYANA • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • June 17, 2009
After testimony from a Southfield clinic doctor who recommends medical marijuana, a judge in the 43rd District Court in Madison Heights has dismissed felony manufacturing charges against a Madison Heights couple, who were growing plants they thought were legal under the state’s medical marijuana law.
News: Exactly As We Predicted; Deadly NY Terror Cell Are Semi-Retarded Potheads
Exactly As We Predicted; Deadly NY Terror Cell Are Semi-Retarded Potheads
As in ever other major case, terror group hyped by media turn out to be low IQ bums radicalized by federal provocateurs
aul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, May 22, 2009
Exactly as we predicted in our headline story yesterday, two of the ringleaders in the “deadly” New York terror plot salaciously hyped by the media and government officials have turned out to be semi-retarded potheads.
“The men will likely turn out to be semi-retarded dropouts,” we stated in our article yesterday, basing our forecast on the fact that in every other major terror sting in the west given so much prominence by officials and the corporate media, the poor suckers rounded up by the feds always turn out to be low IQ petty criminals down on their luck, provocateured and armed by federal agents.
We already knew that the men were provided with an inert rocket launcher and fake C4 explosives by an FBI informant, and now as more details emerge, our original summation of the case is proving accurate.
According to an Associated Press report, the four men charged with planning to blow up synagogues and military planes, “Were amateurs every step of the way. They had trouble finding guns and bought cameras at Wal-Mart to photograph their targets. One was a convicted purse snatcher, another smoked marijuana the day the plot was to be carried out.”
The report continues,”Relatives said the defendants were down-on-their-luck men who worked at places like Wal-Mart, a landscaping company and a warehouse when they weren’t behind bars. Payen’s lawyer said he was “intellectually challenged” and on medication for schizophrenia. Marilyn Reader said he has “a very low borderline” IQ.”
Posted by MikeyZero Friday, May 22, 2009 (21:12:25)
U.S. Supreme Court handed mmj a resounding victory U.S. Supreme Court handed mmj a resounding victory
The U.S. Supreme Court handed medical marijuana patients and advocates a resounding victory on Monday, refusing to hear a case brought by San Diego County, which has long chafed at implementing statewide medical marijuana laws.
The state of California, in an effort to systematize the 1996 voter-approved initiative, required localities to implement identification card programs for patients with doctor approval in 2004. Such ID cards are required to enter medical marijuana shops in California and can be shown to police officers who find patients in possession of marijuana.
San Diego County, however, argued that the federal ban on marijuana trumps the state law, meaning they are not required to follow the state law. The county filed suit in 2006. Both the San Diego Superior Court and the Fourth District Court of Appeals rejected the argument, which was followed by the California Supreme Court's refusal to review the case in 2008.
The San Diego Board of Supervisors voted to appeal to the Supreme Court.
"The courts have made clear that federal law does not preempt California's medical marijuana law and that local officials must comply with that law," said Joe Elford, chief counsel with Americans for Safe Access (ASA), a national medical marijuana advocacy group with a large presence in California. "No longer will local officials be able to hide behind federal law and resist upholding California's medical marijuana law."
News: New Poll: 52% Say Marijuana Should Be Legal, Taxed, Regulated
May-06-2009
New Poll: 52% Say Marijuana Should Be Legal, Taxed, Regulated
Salem-News.com
(WASHINGTON D.C.) - A new Zogby poll commissioned by the conservative-leaning O'Leary Report has found 52 percent voter support for treating marijuana as a legal, taxed, regulated substance.
The survey, published as a full-page ad in today's issue of the political newspaper The Hill, polled a sample of 3,937 voters weighted to match the 2008 presidential outcome -- 54 percent Obama voters and 46 percent McCain supporters.
"This new survey continues the recent trend of strong and growing support for taxing and regulating marijuana and ending the disastrously failed policy of prohibition," said Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project in Washington, D.C.
Voters were asked: "Scarce law enforcement and prison resources, a desire to neutralize drug cartels and the need for new sources of revenue have resurrected the topic of legalizing marijuana. Proponents say it makes sense to tax and regulate the drug while opponents say that legalization would lead marijuana users to use other illegal drugs. Would you favor or oppose the government's effort to legalize marijuana?"
The results showed a decisive majority of 52 percent in favor with 37 percent opposed and 11 percent not sure -- slightly higher than the 46 percent support reported in an ABC News/Washington Post poll released at the end of April.
Medical Marijuana: Medical marijuana shops considered Medical marijuana shops considered
Royal Oak weighs letting growers set up in business district
Jennifer Chambers / The Detroit News
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Royal Oak -- Woodward Avenue has been a magnet for car enthusiasts and shoppers for decades, but the boulevard soon may earn a new reputation as Michigan's first pot zone.
Royal Oak's leaders are contemplating a zoning ordinance that would require medical marijuana growers to set up shop in the city's general business district, which encompasses the retail and commercial business strip along the byway.
The proposal, to be discussed Tuesday by the city's Plan Commission, targets growers who are state registered caregivers of medical marijuana patients. It would not apply to qualified patients who are physician-certified to grow the drug.
City planner Doug Hedges said leaders had concerns about illegal activity sprouting up at private residences where marijuana was being grown.
"The act does allow a caregiver to be compensated for services so they are a potential commercial activity," Hedges said. "We thought it best to treat them as a business. We don't allow home occupations in Royal Oak where a customer visits a home."
Medical Marijuana: Sentencing delayed in medical marijuana case Sentencing delayed in medical marijuana case
Los Angeles Times
By Scott Glover
April 24, 2009
The sentencing of a man who has become a key figure in the national debate over medical marijuana was postponed Thursday, with a federal judge saying he was inclined to impose a more lenient sentence than the five years required by federal sentencing guidelines, but questioning whether he had the authority to do so.
"If I could find a way out, I would," U.S. District Judge George H. Wu said. He gave lawyers in the case until June 2 to file briefs regarding the impending sentence of Charles Lynch.
Lynch, 47, ran a medical marijuana dispensary in Morro Bay on the Central Coast in 2006 and 2007. Despite having the blessing of the city's mayor and other public officials, he was charged with violating federal drug laws for distributing marijuana and was convicted by a federal court jury in Los Angeles last year.
At the hearing Thursday, Wu heard from several character witnesses, including one of Lynch's patients and the young man's father.
"I stand before you today because I believe a man is being punished for reasons that don't make much sense," said Owen Beck, whose parents took him to Lynch's Central Coast Compassionate Caregivers when he was battling bone cancer at age 17. "I believe a great injustice is being done."
Medical Marijuana: Issues linger as patients seek medical marijuana Issues linger as patients seek medical marijuana - with video
By Lisa Roose-Church • DAILY PRESS & ARGUS • April 26, 2009
As the first state-issued medical marijuana identification cards were mailed out, local law enforcement remains concerned about the law's loopholes and inconsistencies.
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Those gray areas already are being tested, including one case in Livingston County in which an attorney will appeal a judge's decision that the state's new medical marijuana law does not retroactively apply to his client, who allegedly grew marijuana in his backyard for medicinal purposes.
"The way the law is written, it's a terrible, terrible law," Howell Police Chief George Basar said. "Various pieces of this law will end up in litigation for years."
Michigan's medical marijuana law went into effect in December, making Michigan the 13th state to embrace the controversial pain treatment. Sixty-three percent of the state's voters said yes to the law.
The law took full effect this month, as the Michigan Department of Community Health began processing applications for state identification cards needed to verify a person was using marijuana for medicinal purposes.
The department received 16 applications for the medical marijuana identification card during the April 4 weekend the cards became available. Two weeks later, the state had received 483 applications — an average of 54 applications per day.
As of Friday, the state had received 810 applications. Of that number, 150 people were approved for state-issued IDs, which were mailed Friday. Twenty-eight people had been denied for reasons including not providing the proper Social Security number; not signing the application; not having proper medical documentation; and not having the proper ailment as outlined under the law, said health department spokesman James McCurtis Jr.
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