In states, such as Michigan, where prescriptions for marijuana can be obtained, an employer can still enforce a policy that requires termination of employment following a positive drug screen. We believe our policy complies with the law and we support decisions based on the policy.

Nice job, especially in one of the most economically depressed states in the union. Tell Wal-Mart what assholes they are here.

According to this new report from the CDC, prescription drugs that contain opioids—basically all the good ones—are killing people at record rates. Fatal poisoning from crowd favorites like Vicodin and OxyContin have tripled from 1999 to 2006 and as MPP notes, drug deaths are now even outpacing “auto accident fatalities” in at least sixteen states. |MPP|

Although their legalization ad was banned by certain networks, the Marijuana Policy Project is still getting plenty of face time—even on Fox News! With the country facing financial ruin there’s really no logical arguments against regulating pot like alcohol and tobacco. But that won’t stop people like Calvina Fay, of the Drug Free America Foundation, from trying her best to propagandize the subject. Unfortunately for her and opponents of legalization, the MPP’s adept spokesperson Bruce Mirken obliterates the rhetoric. Watch the debate for yourself below and enjoy the increasing trend of anti-legalization pundits getting vaporized by silly things like facts, figures, and basic common sense.

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Don’t mess with Montel’s marijuana! At the Marijuana Policy Project’s Awards Gala in NYC Monday night, Montel Williams, very candidly, discussed his absolute need for the herb to help him deal with the pain of MS. In a heart wrenching monologue that one would expect from talk show guests, Montel described how his “feet burn,” is “in pain 24 hours a day,” and the only thing that gives him relief is the good weed.
After the jump, the video of the voice-cracking marijuana medic bearing it all.

Montel begins off with jab at an older man who was carrying on a conversation when the talk show toker began to speak. He went on a mini tirade and declared “I’ve come all the way to do this, all I ask is you give me the dignity to listen for a second.” He then describes a laundry list of drugs he tried to ease the pain: oxycotton, percocet, vicodin and others. Towards the end of the speech Montel mentions how even his kids have become activists. His 12yr old who attends a private school right here in NYC was sent to detention because he disagreed with the teacher and proclaimed marijuana is medicine and not just a drug. Montel literally “rolled up on that school” and gave the backward thinking academics a piece of his mind.