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Even though medical marijuana is legal in Michigan, the city of Detroit has shut down 167 cannabis retailers and plans to close 51 more. Marijuana dispensaries in Detroit are subject to strict government regulation, including being 1,000 feet from schools, ...

CINCINNATI — A college student whose life savings was seized because police said they smelled marijuana on his luggage is getting all of his cash back – plus interest — after nearly two years of a legal fight. Police stopped ...

The state of Kansas took a veteran’s children because he was using legal medical marijuana to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) he developed while serving his country in uniform. “They’re basically using my kids as a pawn to take away ...

Buying hydroponic gardening supplies and putting tea leaves in the trash were probable causes for a search warrant and a SWAT-team raid on a family’s home, a federal judge has ruled. US District Judge John Lungstrum found that sheriff’s deputies ...

Marijuana is, of course, a hot topic in American culture today. Controversy and disinformation are abound. As of July 2015, 23 states had enacted laws to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes. But America is not the first country to discover ...

It is no longer safe to carry large amounts of cash with you when you fly or even walk through the airport. That’s because airport police are now using civil forfeiture – a common practice on the nation’s highways — ...

Even though the legalization of medicinal marijuana is sweeping the country, parents in some states are losing custody of their children for using the drug. Some parents are even facing felony charges and possible prison sentences for using marijuana in ...

Thousands of sick Americans including children with untreatable maladies are being prevented from getting medicine that could help – simply because they live in the wrong state. One of those people is Sophia Nazzarine, a 7-year-old girl who at one ...

Simply questioning civil forfeiture apparently can get you arrested and jailed in Michigan. On Feb. 23, cancer patient Thomas Williams, 72, was featured in a Detroit Free Press article about a drug taskforce’s seizure of his television, cell phone, shotgun, ...

By this time next year, Angela Brown could be serving a two-year prison sentence for doing something that by then will be legal. She has been charged with child endangerment for trying to ease her son’s pain with marijuana oil. ...