This article was originally published on the Marijuana Patients Organization site on June 3, 2012.
It is difficult living in an industry where at every turn you are told the same thing, you are doing something wrong. This is the world that “us” in the medical marijuana industry have come to accept, after all we have never lived in another world, hang your head and just accept inequality. Our friends in the medical marijuana community were given a sign of hope from the Supreme Court, The high court reversed several decisions that were based on bias agendas and old beliefs. It should be noted the same 3 judges dished many of these bias rulings, bringing into question obvious character flaws.
This past week, two decisions were reversed. First, a case that stated patients are not able to sell other patients medicine and a second ruling that determined if a patient had not seen the doctor and was charged with posessing marijuana, but had qualifying conditions, they cannot present these facts at a trial.
Not to compare our struggle as Michigan medical marijuana patients to other folks that have experienced discrimination and lost their most basic of rights, but we parallel so many other groups in history. History tells us that our fight will continue, even after this bit of good news.
Despite the reality, this is great news for us patients and should restore some faith in our judicial system or increase our concern for justice and fairness from our Michigan Court of Appeals. Feel free to continue to sell patients the medicine and use to treat conditions, for our rights have never left our side.