Medical Marijuana not allowed on CMU’s campus; legal disputes mounting throughout Michigan
Sep 3, 2010 Online Issue
Marijuana is prohibited on Central Michigan University’s campus, despites the state’s legalization of the substance for medical purposes.
CMU must abide by federal law, which states the substance, whether medicinal or recreational, is illegal to use or possess.
“Federal law supersedes state law,” said Joan Schmidt, associate director of Residence Life. “No marijuana is allowed on campus.”
Campus Police Chief Bill Yeagley said the university policy forbids possession, storage and use of medical marijuana.
But he said Residence Life is willing to work with students who need marijuana for medical purposes.
“If (students) live on campus, they’re not going to say, ‘We’re kicking you out,’” Yeagley said. “If you have an issue, you need to move off campus and it’s a legit reason to move off campus.”
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First Medical Marijuana Commercial Airs in California
Sep 3, 2010 Online Issue
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Earlier this week, a television commercial advertising medicinal marijuana was aired in California – the first ever broadcast in the U.S. The ad was shown over Fox affiliate KTXL in Sacramento, and has swirled up a nice little cloud of controversy from community members who worry about the commercial’s effect on children. The ad itself features a series of testimonials from customers, all A-typical of our drug culture stereotypes: A pretty young woman claims she was diagnosed with a bone disease, while a middle-aged woman says she was hit by a drunk driver.
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Judge allows medical marijuana defendants’ use
Sep 3, 2010 Online Issue
A district judge in Ferndale said Thursday that he would allow state-approved medical marijuana defendants to keep using the drug while out on bond — a sharp contrast to a Waterford judge’s statement Tuesday that deemed marijuana use by defendants in a parallel case to
be a bond violation.
The contrast in treatment for those arrested in metro Detroit’s first major medical marijuana raids showed the breadth of interpretations for the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act, Wayne State University law school professor Bob Sedler said.
After Thursday’s brief hearings for 10 defendants, Ferndale District Judge Joseph Longo told the Free Press that any who were state-approved patients could use marijuana while awaiting trial. The defendants are to appear at a hearing Sept. 20.
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Washington D.C. law aims to make medical marijuana affordable for poor patients
Aug 9, 2010 Online Issue
By Sean Alfano
If you live in Washington D.C., you’ll never be too broke to buy pot.
That is, of course, if you need marijuana for medical purposes, according to a law passed earlier in the year.
The law provides medical marijuana at a discount for the city’s poor residents.
But who exactly is qualified to receive the cheaper pot, along with the price of the drugs, remains up in the air.
The city is expected give some answers about the law in a report Friday, but patients won’t be able to buy medical marijuana until 2011, the Associated Press reports.
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Liquor regulators may help oversee D.C. medical marijuana program
Aug 9, 2010 Online Issue
By Mike DeBonis
District liquor regulators will play a lead role in the city’s new medical marijuana program when it debuts Jan. 1, according to draft rules issued Friday by Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D).
Under the regulations, the city health department would be responsible for registering legal marijuana users. But the licensing and oversight of the facilities that will grow and distribute medical cannabis would be handled by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board and its enforcement arm, the Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration. The prospect of having the same regulators overseeing medical marijuana and liquor stores concerns advocates who have fought to have cannabis recognized as a medical treatment, not just as a drug for recreational use.
Last year, Congress removed a longstanding budget restriction that prevented city officials from implementing a medical-marijuana initiative that voters passed in 1998. City policymakers since have moved to create a tightly regulated system that would forestall future congressional interference.
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Colorado official works to regulate, legitimize medical marijuana industry
Jul 26, 2010 Online Issue
DENVER — When Matt Cook was coaxed out of early retirement to become Colorado’s chief revenue enforcer three years ago, he assumed his time would be spent overseeing the casinos, liquor stores and car dealerships he had been keeping an eye on for much of his career.
If he had hoped for a quiet few years before heading for the golf course, his timing could not have been worse.
Cook, senior director of enforcement at Colorado’s Department of Revenue, returned just as a new kind of business rolled into town promoting a controversial product. Medical marijuana was legalized a decade ago in the state, but retail-style dispensaries began springing up only in 2007.
The trickle of new outlets has turned into a flood. Officials think more than 1,100 dispensaries are operating statewide. As the numbers grew, dispensaries offered ever more cannabis strains, marijuana-infused products and delivery services.
When alarmed lawmakers decided they wanted to curb the burgeoning industry, all eyes turned to Cook. “It was last Christmas that I saw this was heading our way,” he said. “Merry Christmas.”
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Marijuana dispensaries could help sick Oregonians
Jul 26, 2010 Online Issue
(AP) — PORTLAND, Ore. – With one hand, Lindsey Bradshaw hoisted his food bag onto his back, arranging the tube that has helped feed him since cancer ravaged his stomach seven years ago. In his other hand, he clutched a small gold bowl of marijuana and a pipe.
He depends on both devices to get through the day.
One of 36,380 patients registered with the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program, Bradshaw is a gardener who grows most of his own medical marijuana-one of two options that program participants have. They can also buy from a producer who sells to four or fewer people.
Those options leave people dry if they don’t know a producer and are too sick to grow their own, Bradshaw said.
But that could change, if a ballot measure to create a system of medical marijuana dispensaries passes.
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