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Midland Daily News, 14 Jul 2011 – Coleman resident Chris Gee likens himself to a pharmacist, directing medical marijuana cardholders to the right strain of marijuana to help them, and said he will comply with whatever changes are necessary to continue the work.

The Muskegon Chronicle, 15 Jul 2011 – NORTON SHORES — After living 40 years as an outlaw, Paul Miller has cultivated his own medical enterprise tucked among pharmacies, cardiologists and ophthalmologists clustered around Mercy Hospital. The medication he provides goes by such names as God Bud, Train Wreck and Silver Diesel.

The Daily Tribune, 15 Jul 2011 – Celebration Highlights Court’s 100th Graduate. PONTIAC – Most people don’t enter the Oakland County Courthouse with smiles on their faces, but Wednesday was different. The Oakland County Adult Treatment Court was celebrating its 100th graduate with a ceremony and reception.

Spokesman-Review, 15 Jul 2011 – In response to Patricia A. McManus’ July 9 letter: If we are to take away driving privileges for medical marijuana patients, are we also to do so for those who are prescribed painkillers and medications for allergy, blood pressure, sleep and the many other maladies that could also impair one’s […]

The Muskegon Chronicle, 15 Jul 2011 – Michigan’s medical-marijuana law has created a pipe-full of legal confusion. The vaguely worded law has led to a contradictory tangle of local ordinances, law-enforcement policies and lawsuits in response to a statewide explosion of marijuana dispensaries, “compassion clubs” and home-grow operations.

The Daily Tribune, 15 Jul 2011 – PONTIAC – Oakland County Commissioner Craig Covey, former mayor of Ferndale, took the Fifth Amendment several times Thursday in order not to incriminate himself during a medical marijuana entrapment hearing.

Helena Independent Record, 15 Jul 2011 – An East Helena medical marijuana patient who had worked in law enforcement wants to amend the state constitution by initiative in 2012 to decriminalize all cannabis here and treat it like alcohol. “Let us end the pointless battles,” Barb Trego wrote state officials in submitting her idea.

The Columbian, 15 Jul 2011 – Moratorium Will Give County Time to Address New Law A new state law going into effect next week may allow gardens with up to 45 marijuana plants for medical use, but the Clark County commissioners aren’t going to allow it.

Hollister Free Lance, 15 Jul 2011 – Supervisors voted unanimously this week to make its ban pot dispensaries in county limits permanent, and it followed similar bans already in place for Hollister and San Juan Bautista.

Phoenix New Times, 15 Jul 2011 – One of the defining moments of the latest war on medical marijuana in Arizona came last month when Gilbert SWAT officers raided the home of a patient suspected of having a single ounce of weed.