Letter of the Week

Letter Of The Week

LEGALIZE MARIJUANA AND BE DONE WITH IT So the new legislation “that would allow those caught with small amounts of marijuana to avoid punishment altogether if they can convince a judge that they used the drug out of medical necessity” is supposed to be a “middle ground on marijuana?” Get […]

Focus Alerts

ALERT: #467 Michigan Marihuana Act Under Attack

MICHIGAN MARIHUANA ACT UNDER ATTACK ********************************************************************** DrugSense FOCUS Alert #467 – Sunday, April 3rd, 2011 More than 1.3 million adults read the Sunday Detroit Free Press so what it prints is influential. Today two items focused on medicinal marijuana. The first, an in depth editorial, is at http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v11/n218/a09.html The second, […]

Letter of the Week

Letter Of The Week

DESPITE MARIJUANA, BRECKENRIDGE IS PLENTY SAFE Re. “Potheads ruining Breckenridge” by Lorie Willis, letters, March 21 I would like to thank Lorie Willis of San Antonio, Texas for her pleasant description of Breckenridge. It is beautiful, and we do love it here. I am concerned about a few points in […]

Letter of the Week

Letter Of The Week

STOP PUTTING GARDENERS BEHIND BARS It looks like the taxpayers of Illinois are going to be paying for the room and board of another felony gardener. ( “Area drug agents seize cannabis plants, suspect still at large” 3-10-11 ). Have your local police solved all of your rapes, robberies and […]

Letter of the Week

Letter Of The Week

CRIMINAL PROHIBITION MAKES CANNABIS WORTH FIGHTING FOR In attempting to blame cannabis consumers for black market violence (“Violence follows industry, cops warn,” March 9), RCMP Cpl. Peter DeVries came tantalizingly close to understanding the problem. DeVries remarked “because of its monetary value as a commodity, marijuana is inextricably tied to […]

Letter of the Week

Letter Of The Week

DRUGS WON THE WAR Re: Canada’s illicit drug trade growing, March 3. So if I read this article correctly, all the billions of dollars spent on the “war on drugs” in the United States and Canada has resulted in a growth in the trade. The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) […]

Focus Alerts

ALERT: #466 Will Michigan’s Local Reform Laws Be Repealed?

WILL MICHIGAN’S LOCAL REFORM LAWS BE REPEALED? ********************************************************************** DrugSense FOCUS Alert #466 – Thursday, March 10th, 2011 In the months ahead the following local Michigan laws could be repealed: Ferndale Medical Marijuana Ordinance http://www.drugsense.org/cms/node/49 Flint Code Amendment-Medical Marihuana http://www.drugsense.org/cms/node/42 Traverse City Medical Marijuana Ordinance http://www.drugsense.org/cms/node/50 Ann Arbor Medical Marijuana Ordinance […]