This article was originally published on the Marijuana Patients Organization site on January 28, 2012.
Today a few members of the MPO had the opportunity to sit proudly among several of our medical marijuana peers and listen to a room full of attorneys discuss and debate marijuana. Most notably, keynote speaker, former Attorney General Mike Cox whose words brought hope and encouragement to a very exhausted group of patient advocates. General Cox’s open and honest dialogue was refreshing and very entertaining, in fact all speakers presented extremely well.
The symposium was presented by the Wayne State University Law Review and titled “National and State Marijuana Reform: The Social, Economic, Health and Legal Implications.”
Speakers included one opponent, a former White House drug policy director and a gang of supporters; Michigan medical marijuana celebrity attorneys Neil Rockind and Matt Abel, members of the Marijuana Policy Project, a pharmacist and other legal professionals. The discussion shifted between the dichotomy of Federal and State law surrounding medical marijuana, the outright legalization and some discussion on Michigan specifically.
The law students organized a great event that brought together several smart folks, next time such an undertaking is organized a discussion narrowed with the focus on solutions to the problems in Michigan and creative ways to fix it would be prefered, but not a bad start.
Thank you Wayne State University.