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Morning Sun, 07 Jan 2012 – While traditional Republicans were meeting at Clare’s Doherty Hotel, a volunteer for presidential hopeful Ron Paul was finding a largely receptive audience a block away before a very non-traditional audience. “Conservative government, smaller government, less intrusive government,” Paul volunteer Race Williams told members of the Clare County Compassion Club.

The Day, 07 Jan 2012 – New London – The city fired a police officer Friday for his role in the beating of a man outside of a drug and alcohol detoxification center and placed another officer on administrative leave while allegations that he planted drugs during an arrest are investigated.

Kennebec Journal, 07 Jan 2012 – My initial response to the Dec. 28 editorial, “Pot dispensary a pharmacy, not a social lounge,” was to slap my forehead and gasp, “I could have had a (popular vegetable-based beverage).” Actually, that’s the polite version. The lounge atmosphere of the California marijuana scam was clearly known long before […]

Detroit Free Press, 08 Jan 2012 – Narrowing access to medical marijuana is leading Michigan’s registered patients, supporters and lawyers to a new strategy: a campaign to gain limited legalization of marijuana in Michigan for all uses. Access to the drug has tightened as doctors increasingly refuse to sign the state forms to approve the […]

Detroit Free Press, 08 Jan 2012 – At MMM Patient ID Centers in Mt. Clemens and Royal Oak, walk-in clients pay $99, show a doctor their medical records and confer in a private office before they can get the doctor’s signature on their applications to use medical marijuana.

Spokesman-Review, 08 Jan 2012 – If judges continue to deny affirmative defense in medical marijuana cases in spite of medical marijuana laws, jury nullification is the only hope for change. With so many citizens being arrested for marijuana, I feel that it is time for people to know the meaning of jury nullification. Judges almost […]

The Herald, 08 Jan 2012 – Initiative 502 is an initiative to the Legislature that would legalize, tax and regulate marijuana under Washington state law. It would authorize the Liquor Control Board to license Washington businesses to produce and sell limited quantities of marijuana to adults 21 and over.

The Steamboat Today, 08 Jan 2012 – A campaign to legalize marijuana in Colorado appears headed to the November ballot, representing the logical next step in getting clarity on what state residents truly want when it comes to the availability and enforcement of the popular recreational drug, as opposed to the medical use allowed under […]

The Daily Sentinel, 08 Jan 2012 – Pitkin County commissioners will rethink their previous shelving of proposed regulations allowing and governing medical marijuana operations, after learning that simply doing nothing is tantamount to making existing operations illegal. Commissioners plan to take up the issue Jan. 17.

The Herald, 08 Jan 2012 – In response to the Thursday letter writer who asks for common sense (“Don’t replace state booze biz with pot”): This is exactly what we want. We are not asking for it to be legal to drive under the influence or smoke at work or while operating heavy equipment. We […]