By Katherine Yung, Free Press Business Writer
Source: Detroit Free Press
Michigan — In a small second-story office on Main Street in Ann Arbor, Liberty Clinic is doing brisk business, selling medical marijuana for $360 to $400 an ounce. In just 3 1/2 months, 750 patients have come through its doors.
In Lansing, Danny Trevino has expanded beyond [...]

By Tom Greenwood, The Detroit News
Source: Detroit News
cannabis Detroit — Days after Michigan’s no-smoking law went into effect, a Detroit resident filed a petition to make it legal for Detroiters to spark up a joint. On Wednesday, registered medical marijuana user Tim Beck filed a petition with Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey seeking to legalize [...]

James McCurtis Spokesman for MDCH
Michigan — A year into the state’s medical marijuana law, health officials can’t keep up with the demand. Because of a rising backlog of about 3,000 applications, those who wish to use marijuana medically or grow it for others must wait three months for [...]

Michigan — Thousands of marijuana proponents, many openly smoking the drug, crowded the University of Michigan’s Diag on Saturday for the 39th-annual Hash Bash.
Police estimated 5,000 people were there, drawn by sunshine as well as enthusiasm for Michigan’s 15-month-old law legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes. “How many of you are [...]

Police raid highlights problems many face
Michigan’s medical marijuana law has patients fearing arrest while police say they’re unsure of who can legally possess or supply the drug.
In several instances, police have arrested patients, confiscated their marijuana, conducted searches that turned out to be improper and seized trailer-loads of cultivation gear because of gray areas in [...]

It’s not unheard of for a voter-ordered change in state law to require additional work by the Legislature. Constitutional amendments and initiatives do leave strings dangling, details missed.
But the move afoot at the Capitol now to tinker with the state’s new medical marijuana regime has a different feel to it. This seems more the stuff [...]

Michigan — Medical marijuana is legal in Michigan, but communities across the state are putting up barriers to block entrepreneurs from setting up shop in what critics say is a clear attempt to subvert the law.
Cities are taking vastly different approaches to regulating how medical pot is dispensed — from bans in Livonia to months-long [...]

Corn and soybeans rank first and second as Michigan’s most valuable crops. Many are surprised to learn that cannabis, more commonly known as marijuana, is number three. Extrapolating from USDA and Drug Enforcement Administration data, the value of Michigan’s cannabis crop is estimated to be $325 million annually.1 Marijuana horticulture is big business in Michigan.
The [...]

State Senate Bill 618, introduced by Sen. Wayne Kuipers of Holland, to tighten regulations for the production and distribution of medical marijuana makes my head spin very high. This bill ascends into the clouds.
It would require, among other things, that doctors write prescriptions for medical marijuana and that the pharmacies dispense it. In fact, both [...]

Michigan’s Senate Judiciary Committee to take testimony on bills impacting Michigan’s Medical Marihuana Act this Teusday in Lansing.
As you no doubt are aware, 63% of Michigan voters — and at least 50% of voters in every Michigan county — approved the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act (MMMA) in 2008. That kind of resounding support should send [...]