Friday, March 20, 2009
Drugs Michigan's Pot Problem
Posted by Dan Savage on Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 8:42 AM
Apparently they don't have one—at least Michigan's voters don't.
Legalized medical marijuana is about to make its debut in Michigan, which becomes the 13th state and the first between the Rockies and the East Coast to embrace the controversial pain treatment. In a vote last November that defied the culture war/reefer madness connotation to the illegal drug, 63 percent of the state's voters—and a majority in every county—said yes to medical marijuana. The measure collected 250,000 more votes than Barack Obama, who won the state easily.
The police predict "problems" with the new law, which has "holes and inconsistencies." Uh-huh. The problem with legal medical marijuana at the state level is that it's illegal at the federal level. But the Obama administration—God bless it—says that they're going to stop busting medical marijuana operations in states where the medical use of pot has been decriminalized. The best way to fill "holes" and relieve the police of the psychological burden of all those awful "inconsistencies" is by decriminalizing medical and recreational pot at the state and federal level already. (Story via Sullivan.)
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@2 I don't know what kind of shit swag your friends get you in Michigan, but but one of the best weeks I don't remember was the week I spent up there over the summer.
I regularly fell asleep with eyes wide-open, a beer in one hand, a bowl in the other, and a bag of chips in my lap while we watched classic stoner movies. Only to wake up and do it all over again in a couple of hours.
I don't smoke like that all the time, just once every couple of months.
I'm looking forward to doing it again. :)
I regularly fell asleep with eyes wide-open, a beer in one hand, a bowl in the other, and a bag of chips in my lap while we watched classic stoner movies. Only to wake up and do it all over again in a couple of hours.
I don't smoke like that all the time, just once every couple of months.
I'm looking forward to doing it again. :)
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Michigan 62 Clemson 59. Helloooo 2nd Round.
You can let the smart kids in Ann Arbor figure out all the legal complications.
Let the thugs in East Lansing riot (yet again) if they don't figure something out.
Sorry, I HAD to get that out
You can let the smart kids in Ann Arbor figure out all the legal complications.
Let the thugs in East Lansing riot (yet again) if they don't figure something out.
Sorry, I HAD to get that out
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@6 That's a damn shame. The shit I smoked in Michigan was even better than the shit I had smoked in New York the week before. One of the sadder high points in my life was to be able to say I smoked pot on the street in the east village.
You didn't hear this from me, but the "falling asleep in a beanbag chair eating Cheetos and watching Harold and Kumar" weed is in Grand Rapids.
You didn't hear this from me, but the "falling asleep in a beanbag chair eating Cheetos and watching Harold and Kumar" weed is in Grand Rapids.
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Medical marijuana was already legal on a few cities in Michigan-- Ann Arbor and Ferndale at least-- and it hasn't been a problem.
I did see signs against the state legalization-- "2 Goes 2 Far"-- in Ann Arbor before the election, though, which was odd and made me wonder if maybe some people didn't realize it was already legal here.
I did see signs against the state legalization-- "2 Goes 2 Far"-- in Ann Arbor before the election, though, which was odd and made me wonder if maybe some people didn't realize it was already legal here.
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Marijuana is about as harmful to public health as watching TV- fine in moderation, but if done too often, it makes you lazy and unhealthy.
Legalize and tax it already, for Christ's sake.
Legalize and tax it already, for Christ's sake.
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After back surgery I quit the morphine and sampled some california m/m...thats short for m/m.......anyhow I have no pain with out narcotics.....I hope every state does this what a benefit for so many who are suffering needlessly and taking addictive harmful narcotics.........its high time this is universal....cheers from bayfiels wi.
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