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The Amelia Dream Project is something of a local supergroup, with members of Ghostlady, Sista Otis, the Questions and many more coming together to tell the rather sweet story of a girl adrift in the world between wake and sleep. "Starboard" has an appropriately dreamy, ambient feel despite the classic rock leanings. "You couldn't get up today," singer Renee Hytinen sings, as the band lays down some awesome indie rock. We will be checking out more.—Brett Callwood

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Ann Arbor Didn’t Go to Pot

Higher Ground: A place that marijuana activists look to with a gleam in their eyes By Larry Gabriel 5/15/2013

Why Bill Schuette Hates Patient Rights

Higher ground: Nobody fighting to end marijuana prohibition is saying anything about giving it to children. By Larry Gabriel 5/1/2013

The Marijuana Two-Step

Higher Ground: The 42nd Annual Hash Bash in Ann Arbor By Larry Gabriel 4/17/2013

Using marijuana to break a narcotic dependency

Higher Ground: How Bill Kicked the Pills By Larry Gabriel 4/10/2013

Cannabinoids and Cancer

Higher Ground: The stone-cold truth By Larry Gabriel 3/27/2013

Pot and the “Big C”

Higher Ground: Cannabis and cancer? By Larry Gabriel 3/12/2013

What about the patients?

Higher Ground: Stubborn legal questions vex patients’ search for medicine By Larry Gabriel 2/27/2013

State of Michigan vs. McQueen

Higher Ground: State’s high court lowers the boom By Larry Gabriel 2/13/2013

Seeds of change

Higher Ground: Legalization efforts grow from the bottom up By Larry Gabriel 1/16/2013

Don’t be dazed

Higher Ground: New pot doc shows patients trying to obey the law By Larry Gabriel 1/30/2013

Will football go to pot?

Feature: The NFL's coming conflict on cannabis By Dave Zirin 12/19/2012

Marijuana and fish fries

Higher Ground: A question of priorities for federal and state officials By Larry Gabriel 12/19/2012

Pot is a winner

Higher Ground: Last week’s votes give massive momentum to the anti-prohibition movement By Larry Gabriel 11/14/2012

Pot at the polls

Higher Ground: Marijuana law reformers aim for long-term change on Election Day By Larry Gabriel 10/31/2012

The non-campaign for Proposal M

Higher Ground: Push to decriminalize small amounts of weed in Detroit finds little opposition By Larry Gabriel 10/17/2012

Activists vs. bureaucrats

Higher Ground: Lawsuits part of effort to get state officials to comply with medical marijuana law By Larry Gabriel 10/3/2012

A pioneer speaks out

Higher Ground: Legalization advocate Irvin Rosenfeld's visit to Michigan By Larry Gabriel 9/19/2012

Drug-war booty

Higher Ground: State Rep. Jeff Irwin wants to curb forfeiture abuses By Larry Gabriel 9/5/2012

High but not dry

Higher Ground: Engaging new book about marijuana avoids the dullness trap By Larry Gabriel 8/22/2012

Putting DEA on the defensive

Higher Ground: Court case puts marijuana prohibition on the stand By Larry Gabriel 8/8/2012

The dispensary tour

Higher Ground: These Michigan dispensaries are nondescript, businesslike and law-abiding By Larry Gabriel 7/25/2012

Hep on hemp

Higher Ground: Why industrial-grade hemp should be a vital part of our economy By Larry Gabriel 7/11/2012

On a roll

Higher Ground: Working against the War on Drugs — all across America By Larry Gabriel 6/27/2012

Big decisions

Higher Ground: Court rulings encourage medical marijuana users, balk prosecutors By Larry Gabriel 6/13/2012

How would city vote?

Higher Ground: Would Detroiters vote to, practically speaking, legalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana by adults on private property? That choice may be on the November ballot if the Committee for a Safer Detroit (CSD) gets a favorable ruling from the Michig By Larry Gabriel 5/30/2012

Marijuana mea culpa

Higher Ground: Last week, we got some stuff wrong — but here’s the straight dope By Larry Gabriel 5/16/2012

Court ruling hasn’t cleared the air

Higher Ground: Controversy over interpretation of ruling on medical marijuana and driving By Larry Gabriel 5/2/2012

Latin insurgency

Higher Ground: The War on Drugs loses serious traction south of the border By Larry Gabriel 4/18/2012

Hashing it out

Higher Ground: With Michigan in the marijuana spotlight, this year’s Hash Bash brings out the stars By Larry Gabriel 4/4/2012

Drug War's dangerous side effects

Higher Ground: Did cop’s use of informant lead to her death? By Larry Gabriel 3/21/2012

How the drug war rolls back civil rights

Higher Ground: Why the War on Drugs is increasingly seen as Jim Crow under another name By Larry Gabriel 3/7/2012

Detroit ballot fight: Pot as political football

Higher Ground: After court of appeals loss, city tries again to keep the question from voters By Larry Gabriel 2/22/2012

Getting carded

Higher Ground: Fuming over how many months it takes for the state to issue medical marijuana cards By Larry Gabriel 2/8/2012

Netherlands’ coffee shop confusion

Higher Ground: Pot tourist ban doesn’t go off as smoothly as planned By John Sinclair 2/1/2012

Relative issues

Higher Ground: How to gently debate pot with your bigmouth brother-in-law By Larry Gabriel 1/25/2012

Here and there

Higher Ground: Prohibition gains ground in Europe, even as U.S. legalization fight continues By John Sinclair 1/18/2012

Taking on pols at the polls

Higher Ground: A state vote on legalization may not win, but could at least start an important dialogue By Larry Gabriel 1/11/2012

Push set for legal pot in Michigan

News Hits: Facing a law enforcement crusade, push to end cannabis prohibition gathers strength By Curt Guyette 1/2/2012

War on the War on Drugs

Higher Ground: After $1 triilion dollars wasted on failed policies, this whole medicinal weed thing really makes sense By Larry Gabriel 12/28/2011

Where the movement began

Higher Ground: How, 40 years ago, Sinclair and company laid the groundwork for today By John Sinclair 12/21/2011

Gingrich flip-flops on pot

Higher Ground: State governors unite and the closing of Big Daddy's punishes patients By Larry Gabriel 12/14/2011

Police raid dampens Cannabis Cup

Higher Ground: For smokers, the safe haven of the Netherlands is less so By John Sinclair 12/7/2011

Ron Paul says stop the war; Michigan debates strategy

Higher Ground: From republicans to the public at large, support for the War on Drugs is fading By Larry Gabriel 11/30/2011

Schuette fires another salvo against MMJ

Higher Ground: And Kalamazoo voters, in chater amendment question, holding firm By Larry Gabriel 11/16/2011

Top cop changes his mind

Higher Ground: "Ike" McKinnon says it’s time to take a public stance By Larry Gabriel 11/2/2011

Raise high the Cup

Higher Ground: Michigan Medical Cannabis Cup spurs and rewards creativity By John Sinclair 10/26/2011

Cannabis cup wrap-up

Higher Ground: Detroit cops ensure no tokers, but an otherwise great day By Larry Gabriel 10/19/2011

Cannabis Cup in the D

Higher Ground: Big event comes to town, and Dana Beal's ibogaine odyssey By John Sinclair 10/12/2011

Lessons of Prohibition

Higher Ground: Drawing comparisons to the War on Drugs By Larry Gabriel 10/5/2011

Panics, then & now

Higher Ground: By John Sinclair 9/28/2011

The sky isn't falling

Higher Ground: Putting recent raids and the appeals court set-back in perspective By Larry Gabriel 9/21/2011

Let It Grow

Higher Ground: Fighting back for freedom on two continents By John Sinclair 9/14/2011

Darth Schuette

Higher Ground: Attorney General Bill Schuette leads his stormtroopers against medical marijuana By Larry Gabriel 9/7/2011

Schuette gets cheesy

Higher Ground: AG would define law so narrowly you'd need a foot in the grave to qualify By Larry Gabriel 8/24/2011

News galore

Higher Ground: Reports from around the globe on the War on Drugs By John Sinclair 8/17/2011

Joining the fight

Higher Ground: Not your grandfather's NAACP By Larry Gabriel 8/10/2011

War and memory

Higher Ground: Police and prosecutors' abuse of asset forfeiture laws criticized By John Sinclair 8/3/2011

Moms against the drug war

Higher Ground: Opposing how prohibition divides families and hurts kids By Larry Gabriel 7/27/2011

Pot's new Cold War

Higher Ground: Obama administration heightens tensions over medical marijuana By by John Sinclair 7/20/2011

Higher Ed's perspective

Higher Ground: The dean of pot growing comes to town By Larry Gabriel 7/13/2011

Smoking out tourists?

Higher Ground: Closing off access to coffee shops in the name of 'combating drug tourism' By John Sinclair 7/6/2011

Breaking down buds

Higher Ground: Taking a scientific view of the herb's components By Larry Gabriel 6/29/2011

Turning back time

Higher Ground: Amsterdam authorities try rolling back the country's successful experiment in decriminalization By John Sinclair 6/22/2011

Raids and aftermaths

Higher Ground: Oakland County gets injunction against medical marijuana defenses in court By Larry Gabriel 6/15/2011

When in Florence

Higher Ground: Finally, a card that recognizes marijuana as medicine across the EU By John Sinclair 6/8/2011

Game changers?

Higher Ground: Challenging the feds on marijuana's medicinal benefits By Larry Gabriel 6/1/2011

Sacramental herb

Higher Ground: Words of praise for marijuana's spiritual properties By John Sinclair 5/25/2011

One for the Teamsters

Higher Ground: The question of organizing medical marijuana workers was bound to come up By Larry Gabriel 5/18/2011

That hippie sacrament

Higher Ground: On believing in personal freedom and living outside the social mainstream By John Sinclair 5/11/2011

Letter of the law

Higher Ground: Oakland County a frontline in the battle against medical marijuana By Larry Gabriel 5/4/2011

What war has wrought

Higher Ground: The War on Drugs: When the solution is worse than the problem By John Sinclair 4/27/2011

Blurring the lines

Higher Ground: The recreational and medicinal communities get together - somewhat By Larry Gabriel 4/20/2011

Hash Bash to 420

Higher Ground: Ann Arbor: Opposing the War on Drugs early and often By John Sinclair 4/13/2011

Hash Bash No. 40

Higher Ground: Ann Arbor fills with revelers and speakers, but who's blowing smoke? By Larry Gabriel 4/6/2011

Lennon smoked too

Higher Ground: Imagine: What if they had a War on Drugs and nobody came? By John Sinclair 3/30/2011

Beyond THC

Higher Ground: What you need to know about cannabinoids By Larry Gabriel 3/23/2011

Life on the road

Higher Ground: A bit of thievery leaves our correspondent free and easy By John Sinclair 3/16/2011

All together now

Higher Ground: Getting ready for Michigan's biggest medical marijuana expo By Larry Gabriel 3/9/2011

Pharma's pot push

Higher Ground: Big Pharma's marijuana moves highlight DEA double-standard By Paul Armentano 3/2/2011

Wal-Mart wins a round

Higher Ground: Judge rules private employers can fire medical marijuana patients By Larry Gabriel 2/23/2011

Das Hemp-Kapital

Higher Ground: A look at the seminal figures behind Amsterdam's thriving marijuana businesses By John Sinclair 2/16/2011

Hemp on the ropes

Higher Ground: Efforts to liberalize hemp growing could offer jobs and revenues By Larry Gabriel 2/9/2011

Read the news ... oh, boy

Higher Ground: Still shrill: Opponents of pot as histrionic as ever. By John Sinclair 2/2/2011

Law and disorder

Higher Ground: Legal battles over drug testing, grow operations and ordinances continue By Larry Gabriel 1/26/2011

Conspiracy theories

Higher Ground: Reader reactions to drug policy enlighten By John Sinclair 1/19/2011

When science goes to pot

Higher Ground: Poring over the tens of thousands of scientific papers on pot By Larry Gabriel 1/12/2011

The roots of the fiasco

Higher Ground: From shoddy premises to final 'failure,' a look at the War on Drugs By John Sinclair 1/5/2011

On smoking and driving

Higher Ground: When is a person 'too high to drive'? By Larry Gabriel 12/29/2010

War on drug tourism

Higher Ground: As America relaxes some laws on pot, Europe gets paranoid By John Sinclair 12/22/2010

Pot on the left and right

Higher Ground: Can conservatives and liberals agree on legalizing weed? By Larry Gabriel 12/15/2010

High society notes

Higher Ground: Loving looks at best buds, old and new By John Sinclair 12/8/2010

Beware of the sharks

Higher Ground: Talking with some of the compassionate folks behind the green boom By Larry Gabriel 12/1/2010

War-on-drugs vets

Higher Ground: Ex-prisoners critique the 'correctional economy' By John Sinclair 11/24/2010

Straight Talk

Higher Ground: Wrapping up MT's Higher Ground event at Eastern Market By Larry Gabriel 11/17/2010

Outlaws we remain

Higher Ground: Despite Prop 19 defeat, we've still come a long way By John Sinclair 11/10/2010

Getting organized

Higher Ground: Compassion clubs embrace new statewide group By Larry Gabriel 11/3/2010

Getting NORML

Higher Ground: A brief history of the movement to legalize marijuana By John Sinclair 10/27/2010

Big Daddy's business

Higher Ground: The pot boom helps grow-shops grow By Larry Gabriel 10/20/2010

'Where'd ya get it?'

Higher Ground: Why medical marijuana cards represent the end of an era By John Sinclair 10/13/2010

Pot, pols and polls

Higher Ground: State AG race an important one for medical marijuana By Larry Gabriel 10/6/2010

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