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		<title>Why I’m moving to the “free state” of Michigan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Bryan W. Brickner Artemus Gifford greeted me as I closed the gate. Saphrona and Harmon were there too. Next came Electa and Sam’l Williams, James and Hannah Dibble, and the Goodriches, Robert and Olive. They were all nice people I’m sure, but things really came alive when I found John Finley Pettigrew. Here was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themidwestcultivator.com/marijuana-news-specials/02-2012/why-i%e2%80%99m-moving-to-the-%e2%80%9cfree-state%e2%80%9d-of-michigan</link>
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		<title>Mid Michigan Compassion Club &#8211; Fields of Dreams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Beemer’s Mid Michigan Compassion Club in the village of Mecosta sits back a bit off Northland Drive. It’s quiet when we get out of the truck, just the wind singing through the trees. MMCC is the only safe access in this community of about 450 people. Beemers 200 or so members are generous folks, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Rivers Raid Victim Files Suit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sean Muntian who lost his job building manufactured homes in 2009, opened Triple Ripple Hydroponics store near the Three Rivers police station a short time later to support his family. On January 2nd, 2010, police stormed the home Muntian shared with his wife and children, guns drawn, in a paramilitary raid. His small children, ages [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themidwestcultivator.com/marijuana-news-specials/02-2012/three-rivers-raid-victim-files-suit</link>
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		<title>One year of Bill Schuette as AG</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Schuette on Duty-For Everyone Except Patients By Rick Thompson At the age of 31, Bill Schuette was elected to the United States House of Representatives, serving six undistinguished years. Governor Engler made him Director of Agriculture in January 1991. He was elected to the State Senate in 1994. Schuette was elected to the Court of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themidwestcultivator.com/marijuana-news-specials/02-2012/one-year-of-bill-schuette-as-ag</link>
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		<title>Vote Green Initiative Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You’ve Got The Power Jamie Lowell is co-owner of the 3rd Coast Compassion Center and is assisting the organizers of the Vote Green Initiative Project. He sat down with us to discuss how VGIP empowers every day citizens so they can participate in the democratic process. Why did you get involved in the VGIP? The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themidwestcultivator.com/marijuana-news-specials/02-2012/vote-green-initiative-project</link>
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		<title>Medical Marijuana Testing On The Rise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Zach Jarou, Scientific Director, Cannalytics LLC The use of medical cannabis testing labs is on the rise in Michigan. These labs provide a number of services including quantifying levels of the different cannabinoids present in a sample, analyzing moisture concentrations of various products and screening for microbiological contaminants and pesticide residues. This information is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themidwestcultivator.com/marijuana-news-specials/02-2012/medical-marijuana-testing-on-the-rise</link>
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		<title>Senator Jones thinks most patients aren’t really sick.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Also wants to give Michigan State Police registry records On September 7th, and at least two thousand people came together a sunny fall afternoon on the front lawn of the Capitol steps to protest attacks on the medical marijuana law. The rally was, so far, the largest in Michigan. Sen. Rick Jones walked past the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themidwestcultivator.com/marijuana-news-specials/02-2012/senator-jones-thinks-most-patients-aren%e2%80%99t-really-sick</link>
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		<title>Lansings Green Mile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“The Green Mile,” in Lansing serves a barometer for both the economic and political ebb and flow of medical marijuana policy over the last three years. Before the MMMA was passed, this long corridor on Michigan Ave between I-127 and the Capital building was 40% empty. It was dubbed “The Green Mile,” after compassion clubs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themidwestcultivator.com/marijuana-news-specials/02-2012/lansings-green-mile</link>
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		<title>Jesse and Woody</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I met “Jesse” and “Woody” near the bridge to the UP. They agreed to be interviewed but asked that their real names not be used. Both work for the state and would be fired if they were found out, but they offered me an unusual perspective on western medicine and caregiving. “Woody” has two degrees [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themidwestcultivator.com/marijuana-news-specials/02-2012/jesse-and-woody</link>
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		<title>Courtney Miller &#8211; Medicine Woman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This young woman from the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians uses traditional healing methods, including massage and Riki to help her patients. She’s a certified medical message therapist, hot rock message therapist and personal trainer. Miller co-owns and operates Traverse City’s Center for Compassion with Methodist Minister Mike Thue and his son [...]]]></description>
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