Category: Marijuana Patients Organization

Archived articles from The Marijuana Patients Organization (marijuanapatients.org), an advocacy site that was widely popular in the United States from 2010- 2017.

March 26, 2011 Marijuana Patients Organization

Marijuana Patients Can’t Drive?

​If you’re a Michigan medical marijuana patient, you don’t get to drive, according to our Attorney General.

Medical marijuana advocates are unhappy about Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette’s reaction to a case concerning a medical marijuana cardholder who was arrested for “driving under the influence of drugs,” reports Carol Hopkins at the Oakland Press.

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March 15, 2011 Marijuana Patients Organization

Medical Marijuana Employment Rights

California has recently presented a bill that would prevent California employers from discriminating against marijuana patients in the state. This is wonderful news for California, so when will Michigan follow suit? Which Michigan politician will step up and propose this kind of legislation? When Michigan voters approved the medical use of marijuana they did not think this would also include forcing patients out of a job.

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March 8, 2011 Marijuana Patients Organization

MDCH No Longer Controls Medical Marijuana Program in Michigan

Governor Snyder has shifted all power of the Michigan Department of Community Health’s Medical Marijuana Program to a newly organized Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs. This is part of an overall restructuring of departments within the state and it is not certain what if any impact it will have on the State’s Medical Marijuana Program. We hope this move will free up necessary resources to better fund the program, expedite the card issue process and other administrative shortcomings the department has had to date.

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February 17, 2011 Marijuana Patients Organization

Senate Bill 99

This bill is a direct threat to patients. We take this very personal, this bill must be defeated.

Below you will have the opportunity to read the bill that has passed the Senate in Michigan, in a nutshell here’s what it states. Life in prison for any schedule 1 narcotic mixed in any form over 1000 grams. This would qualify a batch of brownies that a cancer patient we know well makes weekly. Could you imagine what those brownies weigh? Even if they don’t quite weigh 1000 grams from the 7 grams of actual marijuana the recipe calls and weigh 450 grams (1 pound), our friend would be faced with 30 years prison and a $500,000 fine.

When will this end? This is the most inartfully drafted proposed legislation since 1950’s Alabama.

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February 17, 2011 Marijuana Patients Organization

Medical Marijuana Expo

MARIJUANA PATIENTS ORGANIZATION (MPO) ADDED TO SPONSOR LIST FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA EXPO 2011

The Marijuana Patients Organization (“MPO”) announces that it has been added to the sponsor list for the THC in Michigan Expo 2011 (“Medical Marijuana Expo”).  This event is scheduled for March 11-13 at the Suburban Collection Showplace (formerly known as the Rock Financial Showplace) in Novi, Michigan.

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February 8, 2011 Marijuana Patients Organization

Royal Oak Sued Again

A medical marijuana patient sues the city of Royal Oak. Represented by two Marijuana Patients Organization board members and attorneys, Neil Rockind and Paul Tylenda, this marks the second such suit filed since recent zoning ordinances passed to ban cultivation in the city.

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