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Michigan Approves Medical Marijuana
The Marijuana Policy Project reports that Michigan voters have approved a medical marijuana initiative that will "permit terminally and seriously ill patients to use medical marijuana with their doctors' approval." The Wolverine State is the 13th state to allow basic decency to rule the day.
Bingo|11.4.08 @ 9:38PM|#
Woah! I'm shocked that the rustiest of the rust-belt actually approved this. Congrats to Michigan for voting against marijuana paranoia!
Kaiser|11.4.08 @ 9:47PM|#
Elemenope
Anybody with news on the Mass. decrim question?
I was wondering the same thing. Last I heard it was looking like it
was going to pass but I don't live there so I am not certain of
anything.
Andrew Jackson|11.4.08 @ 9:47PM|#
Not only did Proposition One pass, but Scotty Boman is polling roughly 2% for the Senate.
|11.4.08 @ 9:48PM|#
I went to the polls in MI specifically for this proposal. Woohoo
us!
Sorry about the gay marriage ban last time around.
tarran|11.4.08 @ 10:06PM|#
The question is, will Obama have the DEA interfering and overriding state laws
Of course he will! Too much of the Federal power depends on the
justification provided by the war on black jazz musicians for him
to give it up.
One nice thing in the next 8 years will be mocking Obama supporters
as their dreams of a new dawn inevitably turn to ashes.
Mad Max|11.4.08 @ 10:07PM|#
""permit terminally and seriously ill patients to use medical
marijuana with their doctors' approval"
The problem is that Michigan doctors will hesitate to approve
medical marijuana for anyone because of a well-founded fear that
the DEA will come after them.
Perhams the state of Michigan can distribute information pamphlets
to federal jurors, advising them that federal prosecution of
medical marijuana users is unconstitutional.
Of course, there would still be the civil forfeiture problems.
Dog\'s New Clothes|11.4.08 @ 10:36PM|#
Finally some good news out of Michigan!
I'm not home to celebrate (schoolin' and all that) but I feel the
need to ingest something.
Where is J sub? Already celebrating?
Andy|11.4.08 @ 10:54PM|#
I almost don't want to ruin what many have rightly called the best news of the night, but how sad is it that this vote was even needed? It should be a given that sick people can do what they want to help themselves. And unsick people for that matter.
|11.4.08 @ 11:47PM|#
Plus you can buy spirits in Ottawa County, MI on Sundays now...and go go embryonic stem cells!
|11.5.08 @ 11:22AM|#
The question is, will Obama have the DEA interfering and
overriding state laws.
I don't see Obama, who by all the evidence is a
go-along-to-get-along guy, spending any political capital change
current DEA policy.
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