I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
The tension between federal and state laws about marijuana continues to clash in Michigan. A Jackson woman, who is a registered medical marijuana patient has been evicted from a federal housing unit because of the drug despite compliance with state law.
In a move that critics say is an attempt to further his congressional campaign, Republican State Sen. Wayne Kuipers of Holland, has scheduled a hearing on a package of bills that would change the public health code to reclassify medical marijuana as a schedule 2 controlled substance and require that it be dispensed exclusively by [...]
Wait and see: That’s what law enforcement agencies across Michigan are doing when it comes to the state’s new medical marijuana law. At the moment, there is no reason to believe that an incident which occurred in March where a Madison Heights couple was arrested for growing marijuana they said was for medical purposes should be viewed as common law enforcement policy across the state, said Tom Hendrickson, executive director of the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police.
In a matter of days, state residents suffering debilitating ailments and serious diseases will have a natural — and now legal — option to treat the pain and discomfort of their conditions. But on April 4, when Michigan becomes the 13th state to sanction the use of medical marijuana with a physician’s recommendation, there are some questions about the legalities of how the product will be procured.
Proposed medical marijuana registry violates the spirit and letter of law and raises civil rights concerns, advocates say.
The state government is moving to license medical marijuana users for the first time as prescribed a statewide ballot initiative that voters approved last month. Advocates of the law are encouraging ill people to talk to their doctors about whether pot will work for them.
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