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BROOMFIELD, Colo. (CBS4) – A 17-year-old, driving while high on marijuana when his car struck and killed another teenage boy, was sentenced to two years in youth corrections on Friday.
August 7, 2018: Oklahoma law enforcement officers are worried that marijuana use may increase impaired driving as the state begins to introduce legal medical marijuana.
August 3, 2018: Doctors in Canada want to see the medical cannabis system phased out once legalization happens later this year, says a Canadian Medical Association vice-president.
“The medical profession, as a whole, has really struggled with the whole concept of medical cannabis. There’s definitely some physicians who feel comfortable in that area but most don’t,” Dr. Jeff Blackmer, vice-president of medical professionalism for the Canadian Medical Association, told CBC Calgary News at 6.
July 31, 2018: NILES — The calendar may be about to turn to August, but Niles Police Chief Jim Millin is thinking about November.
That’s when Michigan voters could approve a ballot initiative to legalize recreational marijuana.
The possibility has been consuming much attention, even as the state is still working to get a new commercial system for medical marijuana up and running this year.
July 27, 2018: On July 22, 2018, a RCMP officer on traffic patrol stopped a commercial semi-trailer on the Trans-Canada Highway at Westhawk, Manitoba. The stop was initiated to conduct a regulatory inspection of the driver’s paperwork. These checks are done to ensure safety of commercial vehicles and their loads as commercial vehicles are involved in approximately 20% of road fatalities every year in Manitoba.
When the officer stopped this vehicle and checked the driver’s paperwork, several discrepancies were discovered.
July 12, 2018: DENVER — Ashley and Ryan picked Denver as the perfect spot for their weed-infused honeymoon.
Robert, a well-to-do contractor from Houston, mixed a little R&R — reefer and recreation — with his latest business trip to Colorado. And Tyrell Towle, a chemist from Washington state, chose Denver as the spot for his home and job after getting a PhD degree in chemistry in Iowa.
The four have little in common, but there is one key thing that ties them together: marijuana.
July 17, 2018: This interview was done by Point/COUNTERPOINT with G1NBC out of Howell, Michigan. It is an informative piece on what we face in November. Read the perspectives from a Commissioner and a Commission candidate. Please share with your audience if you find this helpful!
July 11, 2018: LUDINGTON, Mich. — This heartbreaking story starts with a Snapchat video of a teen passing out after smoking a potent form of marijuana shortly before waking up and getting behind the wheel. It was homecoming night when an officer knocked on Gordon MacDougall’s door and told him his son had been in a bad crash.
June 30, 2018: LEE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WSYM) – Location is huge in real estate, just ask anyone who’s tried to sell a house near a sewage treatment plant.
One homeowner says an outdoor pot-growing operation next door is making it tough to sell his house. Dave Taylor has lived in Calhoun County’s Lee Township for just over a decade now and he has no complaints. That is until two years ago when his neighbor built an outdoor medical marijuana growing operation right in plain sight. “I really don’t have an opinion on it whether it is legal or illegal,” said Taylor. “I don’t do it and if someone else does I don’t care, that’s not my problem.”
What’s become Taylor’s problem as retirement nears, the ability to sell.
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