Fired For Using Medical Marijuana? You Can Still Get Jobless Benefits, Court Rules
The Michigan appeals court says workers can qualify for unemployment pay if they're fired for using medical marijuana.
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The Michigan appeals court says workers can qualify for unemployment pay if they're fired for using medical marijuana.
Police say he lit a marijuana bong and started smoking while officers tried to break out a window of his car.
Authorities seized marijuana and more than $4,000 in cash from an Alabama football player's dorm room.
The woman told police her 16-year-old son had marijuana and would smoke it in front of her other children.
A marijuana legalization proposal will not appear on the ballot in East Lansing this November.
It seems we've jumped into the pool of relativism since we got wind of Josh Gordon's season-long suspension for marijuana use. You have the indignant faction that can't believe someone who smokes weed gets a year while Ray Rice skates with a two-game suspension
To date, eleven communities across the state have attempted decriminalization of small amounts of marijuana, and all eleven have succeeded.
When officers arrived on the scene, they found an encampment and two Hispanic men with guns tending the plants.
Voters in two Detroit-area communities have approved ballot proposals legalizing marijuana for personal use.
Tim Beck is known as the "godfather" of marijuana in Michigan, had successfully led the state-wide initiative five years ago to legalize the use of medical marijuana.
Police said in a release Friday that the most recent incident uncovered building code violations involving electrical, mechanical and building modifications.
Some of the better quotes from the arrest video are from the police officer. "Bags of weed just don't go missing inside a police car," said the trooper. "And I've got it all on video."
Supporters of marijuana decriminalization have submitted petitions to place the issue before voters in two northern Detroit suburbs.
They're gearing up for the 43rd annual Hash Bash at the University of Michigan Diag on Saturday.
"This is part of a strategy to basically pick off, town by town, this issue..."
The chief justice of the state Supreme Court says he's seen enough medical marijuana cases.
More than five years after Michigan voters legalized medical marijuana, advocates say gaps in the law cause needless confusion and prosecution.
Six people are facing charges following raids last June on three medical marijuana dispensaries in southern Michigan.
Marijuana can be used to relieve post-traumatic stress disorder in Michigan, the first new condition since voters approved pot for medicinal use in 2008.
The bill would prohibit medical marijuana users from growing or smoking weed in rental properties, including hotels.
German researchers say they've identified two people who died just from smoking pot.
The criminal complaint says officers found pills and about 300 grams of high-quality marijuana in his vehicle.
The Cannabis Career Institute is coming to Detroit this Saturday for a day-long seminar on how you can become part of what supporters say is fast growing industry.
Medical marijuana measures have moved forward in the Michigan House, including one that would allow pharmacy sales of the drug.
The 55-year-old councilman has resisted calls to step down following his Nov. 30 arrest on I-475 in Genesee Township.
