Category: Marijuana Patients Organization

Archived articles from The Marijuana Patients Organization (marijuanapatients.org), an advocacy site that was widely popular in the United States from 2010- 2017.

December 30, 2011 Marijuana Patients Organization

Michigan to Legalize Marijuana?

This week we heard an announcement from the Ann Arbor-based group, Repeal Today For A Safer Michigan 2012, which hopes to get the “full legalization of marijuana” question in front of voters this election year. While our organization is not behind their initiative, we do applaud their efforts and see this as much needed, additional protection that medical marijuana patients desperately need.

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December 16, 2011 Marijuana Patients Organization

MI Attorney General Prefers a For-Profit Medical Marijuana System

In recent decisions and actions, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette has supported a for-profit medical marijuana system as written in the plain text of the Michigan medical marijuana voter approved ballot initiative. Many States that are more organized and structured in dispensing the medicine like Colorado, have a for-profit system in place. However, California, a State that has a medical marijuana law described by Federal prosecutors as “lax and unstructured”, relies on a not-for-profit model to dispense marijuana to it’s residents.

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December 14, 2011 Marijuana Patients Organization

Clinical Relief Trial Update

In a motion hearing today at Oakland County’s 52nd District Court, Judge Dan O’Brien heard from defense attorneys and the prosecution before ruling on motions that would dismiss charges against all 8 defendants linked to the Ferndale, MI medical marijuana dispensary, Clinical Relief. The judge was prepared to dismiss charges based on the fact defendants were not given due process as protected by the 14th amendment of the Constitution.

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December 7, 2011 Marijuana Patients Organization

U.S. Supreme Court:State Medical Marijuana Laws Not Preempted by Federal Law

Washington,DC —The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a landmark decision today in which California state courts found that its medical marijuana law was not preempted by federal law. The state appellate court decision from November 28,2007,ruled that “it is not the job of the local police to enforce the federal drug laws.”The case,involving Felix Kha,a medical marijuana patient from Garden Grove,was the result of a wrongful seizure of medical marijuana by local police in June 2005. Medical marijuana advocates hailed today’s decision as a huge victory in clarifying law enforcement’s obligation to uphold state law. Advocates assert that better adherence to state medical marijuana laws by local police will result in fewer needless arrests and seizures. In turn,this will allow for better implementation of medical marijuana laws not only in California,but in all states that have adopted such laws.

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December 4, 2011 Marijuana Patients Organization

clones

This article was originally published on the Marijuana Patients Organization site on December 4, 2011. Clones are dying. Currently using clonex, clean water,root riot,and…

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December 4, 2011 Marijuana Patients Organization

Oakland County Michigan Reclassifies Marijuana from a Schedule 1 Narcotic

In a recently published court decision from Oakland County Judge Kirsten Neilson-Hartig, marijuana was declared to have medical value as stated by Michigan voters with the passage of the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act. The Judge’s ruling stated, “This Court also finds that the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act’s explicit language finding that marijuana has accepted medical uses is explicitly inconsistent with the definition of a Schedule 1 substance found in MCL 333.7211 and the classification of marijuana as a Schedule 1 substance. Therefore, this Court also finds that MCL 333.7212 as it relates to marijuana, is repealed by implication by the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act.”

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November 14, 2011 Marijuana Patients Organization

Schuette wages war against the people’s law

If there’s anything Bill Schuette has established in his first year as Michigan’s attorney general — besides an appetite for media attention rivaling that of Sarah Palin or Geoffrey Fieger — it’s that he won’t stand for the federal government to trample on the rights of the people of Michigan.

Unless, or course, the right in question is one that Michigan’s top law enforcement official never cared for in the first place. In which case any pretext for ignoring, circumventing or violating the state law that guarantees it is welcome.

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