Michiganders will vote next week on two hot-button health-care topics: medical marijuana and stem cell research. Here's a link to the text of both ballot initiatives.

The medical marijuana measure would allow marijuana use, when approved by a physician, for "debilitating medical conditions" such as AIDS, cancer and glaucoma. A patient or the patient's registered primary caregiver would be allowed to grow up to 12 plants. And the patient would be allowed to possess up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana.

Several...