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NEW POLL OVERVIEW:<br />
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The Michigan Senate, lead by a Republican majority, is considering a plan to create a new system for regulating and distributing medical marijuana.<br />
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The legislation seeks to reclassify medical marijuana, license facilities to grow the drug and distribute it through authorized pharmacies.<br />
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The system, which would require federal approval before it could be implemented and would treat marijuana as a Schedule II drug, similar to OxyContin or Percocet.<br />
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Senate Bill 660 would not replace or change Michigan's voter-approved medical marijuana law, but it would create an independent &quot;pharmaceutical-grade cannabis&quot; registry.<br />
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Patients and caregivers certified to use or grow plants under current law could continue to do so, but those who want to be part of the pharmaceutical registry would have to surrender their old cards and would not be authorized to grow or distribute the drug.<br />
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Under the newly-proposed system, the Michigan Department of Community Health would be tasked with licensing, registering and inspecting pharmaceutical-grade marijuana manufacturing facilities. <br />
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DCH could charge a &quot;reasonable fee&quot; for performing those functions, and would be required to create an online database listing licensed facilities.<br />
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Anyone wishing to manufacture, distribute, prescribe or dispense marijuana would have to obtain a license from the Michigan Board of Pharmacy, as already required for other controlled substances.<br />
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NEW POLL QUESTION:<br />
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Should the legislature pass a law that would regulate the distribution of medical marijuana?<br />
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Yes<br />
No<br />
Undecided<br />
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TO VOTE IN THIS POLL CLICK ON THIS LINK<br />
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PREVIOUS POLL QUESTION:<br />
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Are you in favor of the EPA banning or developing more stringent regulations on wood burning stoves?<br />
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Yes - 10%<br />
No - 89%<br />
Undecided - 2% <br />
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TWO COMMENTS WERE MADE ON THIS POLL QUESTION:<br />
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COMMENT #1:<br />
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Wood burning ban<br />
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No. Or I should say, &quot; Hell No!&quot;<br />
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COMMENT #2<br />
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EPA Regulating Wood Burners<br />
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What next? Gov't already tells us what kind of bulbs to use; what car gas consumption per mile must be; amount of water showers and flush toilets can consume; maximum temperature of water our clothes washers will be capable of having available at the point it enters the washer. On and on and on!!! United States Gov't is treating citizens like children who do not know how to make decisions for themselves. With Common Core &quot;training&quot; our children, it will probably come to a time when citizens do not even notice that we are becoming more socialist all the time.<br />
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