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Stanky Danky wrote:I love how sheriffs are always talking like people really give a fuck what they think. They always come off as narrow minded blow jobbers to me.

The "gentleman" is named Gene Wrigglesworth. He's an entrenched dinosaur who's been in power for decades. I'll certainly remember these comments when the next election comes 'round.

i wouldn't mind making a blanket usa/canada medical mj post. my brother is at his medical mj appointment for wa state as we speak. hope he gets it.

Wrigglesworth was Sheriff when I still lived in MI. Crazy.

Keep up the good fight, we will overcome the people are on our side more and more. Still trying to even get a ballot initiative here in the keystone state.

While there's certain to be confusion and an adjustment period when medical marijuana laws are passed in a state, the blatant statements by Roseville Michigan Deputy Police Chief Jame Berlin are disgusting.

Here's the deal: under Michigan LAW, if a person applies for a medical marijuana permit/license/card and does NOT receive a rejection notification letter within 20 days of filing the application, then the application is deemed to be valid and the application THEN serves as the permit/card until the actual permit/card is received.

This is very, very, very clear as stated in the law.

However, Mr. Berlin chooses to ignore the law:

"If they don't have a card and they're in possession of marijuana, they're coming to jail," Roseville Deputy Chief James Berlin said. "And if they applied for the card, we'll let the judge decide" if a law was broken.

Here's the full article from the Detroit Free Press.

http://freep.com/article/20100325/NEWS0 ... -confusion

Damn, that stinks. Hopefully someone has put together a list of pot friendly candidates come election time.

geoffk wrote:Damn, that stinks. Hopefully someone has put together a list of pot friendly candidates come election time.

We're working on just such a thing, especially for judges.

Seems as though many of the docs in Michigan are either unwilling to or are unfamiliar with how to certify a patient for medical marijuana use.

Claims are made by the docs that they aren't familiar with the pharmacology of cannabis, resulting in their inability to regulate the dose. Administering any type of uniform/consistent dose would also be challenge due to the variety of strains and available and the associated THC levels of the strains.


MICHIGAN DOCS AND MEDICAL POT

OK, I can understand their concerns, however the hazards of too high a dose is at worst pulling a "whitey" and maybe vomiting, however this pretty much disinclines one to continue use.

Don't know of any deaths caused by too much cannabis, however I'm certain there's a lethal ingested dose providing one doesn't vomit.

Just instruct the patients to seek advice on strains and dosage from other experienced patients, don't drive or operate machinery blah blah blah, and that's about it.

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The demand in Michigan for medical marijuana continues to soar.


CLICK HERE.



To date, the Michigan Department of Community Health has already approved over 13,000 patients and also permitted over 5,500 caregivers who grow the meds for the patients. Each caregiver can grow up to 12 plants per patient for a maximum number of 5 patients.

The department currently received over 1,000 applications a week. With a $100 application fee, this means that over $1,300,000 has thus far been collected, however there are only TWO full time employees and two temporary employees to process the applications, resulting in a three month backlog to issue the permits.



Michigan law requires approval or denial of an application within 20 days of receipt.

SEE MORE ABOUT THE ISSUE OF DELAYED PERMITS WITH THE POST BELOW:

drayman86 wrote:While there's certain to be confusion and an adjustment period when medical marijuana laws are passed in a state, the blatant statements by Roseville Michigan Deputy Police Chief Jame Berlin are disgusting.

Here's the deal: under Michigan LAW, if a person applies for a medical marijuana permit/license/card and does NOT receive a rejection notification letter within 20 days of filing the application, then the application is deemed to be valid and the application THEN serves as the permit/card until the actual permit/card is received.

This is very, very, very clear as stated in the law.

However, Mr. Berlin chooses to ignore the law:

"If they don't have a card and they're in possession of marijuana, they're coming to jail," Roseville Deputy Chief James Berlin said. "And if they applied for the card, we'll let the judge decide" if a law was broken.

Here's the full article from the Detroit Free Press.

http://freep.com/article/20100325/NEWS0 ... -confusion

Cities in Michigan are beginning to address issues related to medical marijuana such as zoning to deal with the dispensaries that are beginning to pop up:

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Keep checking back at this thread for the most current information on Michigan Medical Marijuana.

At least one city in Michigan, the state capital of Lansing, is considering zoning restrictions of dispensaries. It essentially means that dispensaries would have to operate in designated commercial zones.

C L I C K H E R E

Here's a few of the strains seen recently at one of the four dispensaries in the greater Lansing area:


AK 47

White Widow

Apollo 13

Larry Kush

Purple Kush

Danny Trevino


Please reply with other strains that you've seen available in the Great Lakes State ! !