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The government spends close to $1 billion a year to warn Americans that ciga- VOL. 12 More on the rette smoking is bad for your health. Yet, ISSUE 49 not one cent is spent to inform Americans about the DEA stance on cannabis. As clear as this is to those in the DEA, it is not (517) 371-5600 • Fax: (517) 999-6061 • 1905 E. Michigan Ave. • Lansing, MI 48912 • www.lansingcitypulse.com Okemos 7 nor was it clear to us as citizens. ADVERTISING INQUIRIES: (517) 999-6705 Once you have been raided, indict- PAGE CLASSIFIED AD INQUIRIES: (517) 999-5066 (The writer, JoAnn Forsberg, is the ed and headed toward sentencing and or email [email protected] wife of Dennis Forsberg and the mother of prison, you learn the meaning of the 8 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER • Berl Schwartz [email protected] • (517) 999-5061 Lance Forsberg, both convicted of federal words “mandatory-minimums” and marijuana charges.) “snitch.” For currently there is no MANAGING/NEWS EDITOR • Andy Balaskovitz mandatory “safety valve” for first-time Sorg: Who will Mark Schauer choose as his running mate? [email protected] • (517) 999-5064 ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR • Allan I. Ross As “naïve flawed” humans who at- offenders. So, to receive a lighter sen- [email protected] • (517) 999-5068 tempted to follow law we desire to: tence, the prosecutor wants a person PAGE PRODUCTION MANAGER • Rachel Harper “Speak up to help others, for the to snitch on another fellow American [email protected] • (517) 999-5066 whole federal process is heart-wrench- to get a lighter or pardoned sentence. 9 CALENDAR EDITOR • Dana Casadei ing and destructive.” Clearly, a broken system. [email protected] • (517) 999-5069 STAFF WRITERS We hold no grudges toward federal In stopping cannabis the DEA should Lawrence Cosentino workers; federal laws are the problem. A begin at the state level of regulations and Lansing artist Alina Poroshina backstrokes through disaster [email protected] • (517) 999-5063 tug-of-war exists between the states and licensing. Why caregivers/growers? Sam Inglot the federal government. This is a civil In America, federal courtrooms have a PAGE [email protected] • (517) 999-5065 rights issue, for the question is: Does 95 percent conviction rate. How can that MARKETING/PROMOTIONS COORDINATOR/ SOCIAL MEDIA CONSULTANT • Rich Tupica a community-state have rights to form be a fair balance of justice? 10 [email protected] • (517) 999-6710 laws in America as long as the law has no Why is a defendant not allowed to ADVERTISING MANAGER • Shelly Olson victim, no malice and no intent to harm? show evidence of legal attempts? Not [email protected] • (517) 999-6705 Or, does the federal government have full one word of state evidence is allowed in Taste of Lansing returns with new bands, more wine and an after party ADVERTISING say over the desires of its citizens? federal court. Yet, the federal court is Denis Prisk The setting for this “perfect storm,” supposed to be the representation of all [email protected] • (517) 999-6704 as Judge Neff called it, was: the real the states as a whole; not a separate en- COVER Contributors: Justin Bilicki, Bill Castanier, estate market crashing, an empty ware- tity. Americans are not told we have the Mary C. Cusack, Amanda Harrell-Seyburn, Tom Helma, Terry Link, Kyle Melinn, Shawn Parker, house building, the 2008 passage of right to “nullification”: to set a person ART Dennis Preston, Dylan Sowle, Paul Wozniak, Ute medical marijuana, daily phone calls free if they believe the law is unjust that Von Der Heyden, Judy Winter from caregivers not wanting to grow a defendant is indicted under. Delivery drivers: Richard Bridenbaker, Dave Fisher, cannabis in their home. Every measure Court recorded statements by two fed- THE FOODIE PAST by RACHEL HARPER Karen Navarra, Noelle Navarra, Brent Robison, Steve Stevens was taken to be legal. eral judges in Dennis Forsberg’s case: ITEMS COURTESY OF: HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF GREATER LANSING Interns: Sean Bradley, Eric Finkler, Ian Siporin, Jordyn PHOTOS: FOREST PARKE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES AND SAM INGLOT Timpson, Darby Vermeulen, Kali Jo Wolkow Regarding money projections and Judge Carmody: “I think this con- Editor & Publisher legal papers drafted: All projected flict within the law has been some- Berl amounts of money for plants were for what disastrous in Michigan. And CITY PULSE ON THE AIR Schwartz purchase by their own patient or dis- you, Mr. Forsberg, got caught in the Kevin Schoen of ACD.net 7 p.m. Wednesdays pensary. Legal papers are a common middle of it.” practice to have clarity through written Judge Neff: “This is certainly an 4th Ward candidates Chong-Anna Canfora, documents. atypical drug case. No weapons, no Bert Carrier Jr., Larry Hutchinson and Jessica Yorko In Michigan law, citizens have the violence and no intent for street THIS WEEK right to recoup the cost for set-up for sales. It was a calculated risk … in grow rooms. Any money earned af- light of how terribly flawed Michigan ter that is taxable. So Dennis Forsberg law is regarding medical marijuana. sought tax ID numbers from the state And it has only gotten more flawed and federal government stating it was for and more difficult in light of our cur- an LLC that would grow cannabis. rent attorney general, who in my view These legally drafted documents and further made it difficult for the ‘will the tax ID are why the DEA labeled Den- of the people’ in passing this Act, nis a “drug leader” flawed as it is to carry it out!” STATE OF MICHIGAN and are sending Judge Neff: As Judge Carmody point- PROBATE COURT INGHAM COUNTY him to prison. ed out: “Circumstances just presented CIRCUIT COURT FAMILY DIVISION When a prosecu- themselves which is kind of a “PER- NOTICE OF HEARING tor has no other FECT STORM FOR ALL OF YOU.” FILE NO. means, the word 13-001964-GA “conspiracy to For additional study: In the matter of Arthur Penzinski. commit a crime” 1. Federal Marijuana definition TAKE NOTICE: A hearing is used to indict see: Marijuana TITLE 21-CHAPTER will be held on 08/08/2013, 9:30 AM, at 313 W. Kalamazoo and convict indi- 13-SUBCHAPTER 1-PART A-SEC. St., before Judge Economy for the following purpose: viduals. 802. There are three types of can- Hearing for guardianship. Through dev- nabis: Sativa, Indica and Raderalis. If you require special accom- astation we have Only Sativa is mentioned in federal modations to use the court because of a disability, or if learned much law. Indica is the cannabis grown by you require a foreign language interpreter to help you fully about the federal caregivers in north. take part in court proceedings, please contact the court system. Before we immediately to make those arrangements. had no need to un- 2. Watch video from Lansing On- Date: 07/10/2013 derstand the fed- line Radio: Bonnie Bucqueroux video Gene Mellen Adult Protective Services eral stance on can- with horticulturist Lance Forsberg Ingham County DHS 5303 S. Cedar St. nabis; we learned at: http://www.ustream.tv/record- Lansing, MI 48911 (517) 887-9575 the hard way their ed/3311607 City Pulse • July 17, 2013 www.lansingcitypulse.com 5 PULSE NEWS & OPINION dents that strongly feel like they have not port of the mayor is a good thing — it’s Votes and been represented at Council for the past one of the reasons she’s voting for Yorko.