David Leyton, Michigan Democratic Party Nominee For Attorney General Speaks On Medical Marihuana

[mremre]

Q: Medical marijuana has been a big issue for local governments. How do you see it taking shape in the future and how do you see your role as a potential attorney general impacting that?

 

Leyton: “It’s the will of the people — 63 percent of people voted for it. It’s my role as leadership to make the law more understandable to law enforcement, so the people know what they can do and cannot do. There’s a lot of gray areas. The attorney general should have filled in those gray areas.

 

“So, a committee of prosecutors — one of whom is me — has picked up the slack and we are righting the rules to fill in the gaps. I will not spend the next four years trying to repeal that law, as my likely opponent (Sen. Mike Bishop) has said he will.”

 

Q: But what specific changes are needed in the Medical Marijuana law?

 

Leyton: “I think you have to know where a dispensary can go. I think you have to know what type of facility you can grow it in. I think you have to know from where you can obtain (medical marijuana) it. I think you have to know where folks can setup community rooms if people want to talk about it and smoke and ensure children aren’t in there and that it is not near schools.

 

“The bottom line is it is the will of the people. People said: If it helps the people overcome chronic pain from their illness, than what is wrong with it? That is what the people of Michigan enacted.”

 

http://www.petoskeynews.com/politics/article_06d9bf56-ab9b-11df-8580-001cc4c03286.html

[TajMahal]

Plan to vote this Nov!!

[bobandtorey]

we were just talking about this at the ASA meeting last Saturday how the top cop can help us and can hurt us. I think the AG is more in portent then the Governor race

[TajMahal]

Yes it is, Vote 2010!!!

 

 

 

we were just talking about this at the ASA meeting last Saturday how the top cop can help us and can hurt us. I think the AG is more in portent then the Governor race

[Guest Wayne]

He needs as much financial support as he can get. Everybody give, if only $5. Everybody vote. Everyone campaign, if only to friends and family. If Schuette gets this office you will pine for the good old days of Mike Cox. Those that stay home on election day deserve to lose their right to the medication that they need. Be lazy get an absentee ballot, but vote.