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		<title>Hash Bash Marks Its 41st Anniversary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Activists Working To Unify Hostile Climate For the first time in 41 years, the annual Hash Bash rally in Ann Arbor boasts a marijuana reform community who are not only angry but motivated, organized, and—here’s the important part&#8211;on the offense. &#160; Yes, there will be plenty of folks who show up to “blaze one,” (or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court says Detroit Proposal Should Have Been On Ballot &#8211; City Says They Will Appeal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Charmie Gholson The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled February 10 that the Detroit Election Commission violated its &#8220;clear legal duty&#8221; to give voters the opportunity to vote on a proposal in November 2010 that would have amended the city code to legalize possession of less than an ounce of marijuana by adults on private [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themidwestcultivator.com/marijuana-news-headlines/04-2012/court-says-detroit-proposal-should-have-been-on-ballot-city-says-they-will-appeal</link>
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		<title>Activism Burnout: Signs, Prevention and Remedies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Charmie Gholson Doctor, my eyes, tell me what is wrong Was I unwise to leave them open for so long? &#160; Not even 24 hours after my friend Chuck Ream told me I should take better care of myself I had a total meltdown. “Charmie you simply cannot do everything yourself,” he said, “because, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themidwestcultivator.com/marijuana-news-headlines/04-2012/activism-burnout</link>
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		<title>Marijuana Policy Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summary of House Bills 4834, 4851, 4853, and 4856]]></description>
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		<title>Patients Prevail in House Hearings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rick Thompson The legislator generated Bills currently being considered in the House of Representatives and the Senate are designed to alter our medical marijuana act or other associated laws governing patients and caregivers. The impact of this pending legislation has been blunted by the efforts of the medical marijuana community, the organizations that support [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drug Policy Groups Unite to Demand End to Medical Marijuana Raids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Coalition to President Obama: “It is time for a new approach on marijuana policy.”  Apr 04, 2012 by Aaron Houston &#160; Six National Drug Policy Organizations Call on President Obama to End Unnecessary Assault on Medical Marijuana Providers Coalition to President Obama: “It is time for a new approach on marijuana policy.” Contact: Aaron Houston, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themidwestcultivator.com/marijuana-news-features/04-2012/drug-policy-groups-unite-to-demand-end-to-medical-marijuana-raids</link>
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		<title>Veterans For Medical Cannabis Access</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Krawitz Takes on The Feds By Syndy Sweeney When Senior Airman Michael Krawitz was severely injured in 1984 in Guam he didn’t think he’d survive. Not only did he survive, but 30 years later he’s a nationally and internationally recognized leader in movement to allow medical marijuana safe access for veterans. He’s now the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themidwestcultivator.com/marijuana-news-features/04-2012/veterans-for-medical-cannabis-access</link>
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		<title>“Dear Michigan:You are not Alone”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jason Browne In the past year, an alarming legal argument has been put forward in California by opponents of medicinal cannabis, and it’s being used to deprive qualified individuals of the right to present a medical defense to criminal charges in our courts. They are attacking our right to form Associations (organizations made up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themidwestcultivator.com/marijuana-news-features/04-2012/%e2%80%9cdear-michiganyou-are-not-alone%e2%80%9d</link>
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		<title>10 Questions To Ask Your Cannabis Scientist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Freedom is green.com By Samantha Miller &#160; The current cannabis laboratory environment is unregulated so consumers have to be savvy. Knowing what questions to ask a prospective cannabis lab is key.  To help the process a group of laboratory service providers* from various states along with an international advisor compiled a list of 10 questions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themidwestcultivator.com/marijuana-news-health/04-2012/10-questions-to-ask-your-cannabis-scientist</link>
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		<title>Study: Passage of Medical Marijuana Laws Correlated With Fewer Suicides</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By NORML Newsblog &#8220;Policymakers weighing the pros and cons of legalization should consider&#8230; that (these) laws may lead to fewer suicides among young adult males&#8221; Bonn, Germany: The enactment of statewide laws allowing for the limited use of cannabis therapeutically is associated with reduced instances of suicide, according to a discussion paper published in January [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themidwestcultivator.com/marijuana-news-health/04-2012/study-passage-of-medical-marijuana-laws-correlated-with-fewer-suicides</link>
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