This article was originally published on the Marijuana Patients Organization site on February 15, 2012.
The Voters of the state of Michigan by an overwhelming majority of 63% approved the medical use of Marihuana. The medical marihuana community has yet to see the government implement the law as it was intended. The cards remain 7 months behind, there have been no new conditions added to the registry and the privacy of the patient registry is still being debated.
The Voters of the state of Michigan by an overwhelming majority of 63% approved the medical use of Marihuana. The medical marihuana community has yet to see the government implement the law as it was intended. The cards remain 7 months behind, there have been no new conditions added to the registry and the privacy of the patient registry is still being debated.
The program has taken in over 14 million dollars over the last 4 years and not one penny of it has gone to educate, teach or train Law Enforcement to look at medical marihuana differently. Our attorney general has been on a political crusade against the medical marihuana community for 2 years, giving justification to state wide law enforcement agencies to ignore the protections of the act. Additionally Courts from across the state are depriving patients and caregivers the most basic right of presenting a medical marihuana defense to a jury in a criminal case.
With cases pending in the Michigan Supreme Court on the right to present a defense, the locked enclosed facility, section 4 section 8, zero tolerance, and the unregistered patient, the Legislature is set to begins hearings on several bills that seek to amend the act. Any such legislative endeavor would require a 75 percent vote in both houses, and the elections for many of those who will be asked to be part of the 75 percent are up for reelection in 2012.
Michael Komorn is an attorney specializing in medical marijuana cases in addition hosts a weekly radio show discussing topics surround the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act, http://www.blogtalkradio.com/planetgreentrees