Home Michigan's Medical Marijuana Law Stoned To Death

[+EdwardGlen]

Our friend in Oregon sent this article...She had two of her friends who are attorneys read our law. They don't understand how the courts have allowed the AG to act so prejudicial towards us registrants and our law, until they learned the courts lean way right.

 

How can it be legal for such a small number of politicians to be able to overturn the votes and demands of millions of Michigan residents?

 

http://cannabislover.com/2011/08/28/michigans-medical-marijuana-law-stoned-to-death-cannabis-lover/

 

Michigan’s law enforcement authorities have been determined to undo the will of voters who overwhelmingly approved a 2008 ballot initiative legalizing medical marijuana. They’ve looked for every which way to stop patients from accessing marijuana. For example,the law allows patients to possess 2.5 ounces of usable marijuana

 

However, they’ve been arresting patients for possessing raw marijuana over that amount, even though it loses 80 percent of its weight once it is processed and dried. And today they took a giant stride forward in achieving their end as numerous medical marijuana dispensaries around the state shut their doors following an appellate court ruling Tuesday.

 

The court ruled that although the initiative protected the right of registered patients to use “marihuana” (the way the law chose to spell the word), it didn’t explicitly authorize the dispensaries.This presumably leaves patients the option of growing and processing their own “marihuana.” But won’t they need to buy seeds to do so from—err—dispensaries or some commercial source?

 

There is no doubt that the Michigan law was poorly written (partly to steer clear of the federal ban on marijuana), and has become something of a hornet’s nest for patients and communities. Patients are planning to appeal the ruling to the Michigan Supreme Court. And there are plans afoot to clean up the law in the fall legislative session.

 

However, where there is a will there is a way. Many communities and authorities—including the state’s Republican Attorney General Bill Scheutte—are so implacably opposed to allowing dispensaries in their midst that they will leave no stoner unturned for loopholes to exploit.

 

Scheutte, for example, has gone after registered patients who engage in the collective growing or sharing of marijuana plants on cooperative marijuana farms. Why? Because the law, he believes, requires each patient’s plants to be grown and maintained in a “separate” enclosed, locked facility that is only accessible to the registered patient or the patient’s registered primary caregiver.

 

This is just, plain hazing—and he didn’t even have to toke up to do it.

 

Article source: http://reason.com/blog/2011/08/26/michigans-medical-marijuana-la

 

Article source: http://cannabislover.com/2011/08/28/michigans-medical-marijuana-law-stoned-to-death/

[Kingdiamond]

What we really need are some of the case hardened medical marijuana activist attorneys that have been fighting and winning for years in the other long establish medical marijuana states come assist us in turning back these draconian dogs of the long failed drug wars and send them back to their caves to lick their wounds in defeat .

[bobandtorey]

We all knew what was going to happen if he got the job of A.G and he kept his word and i think we got started late inn trying to get Mr. layton on as A.G IMO

[Herb Cannabis]

What we really need are some of the case hardened medical marijuana activist attorneys that have been fighting and winning for years in the other long establish medical marijuana states come assist us in turning back these draconian dogs of the long failed drug wars and send them back to their caves to lick their wounds in defeat .

I agree with you friend, but that would require a lot of money. I can't organize or do any of that sort of thing, but I would gladly donate to a fund to hire these great lawyers for our cause.

 

We also need to be much more politically active and know the issues and the candidates for which we are voting. We should be doing all we can to help candidates get elected that support our platform.

 

I believe that there is a lot of money in the Michigan Medical Marijuana industry and we should be helping good candidates (a small investment imo) get elected.

 

That's my two cents, thanks.

 

TOGETHER WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL - LETS TAKE IT TO THEM