This article was originally published on the Marijuana Patients Organization site on October 29, 2012.

On July 28, 2010 Oakland County CEO Brooks Patterson met with Jim Rice (Flint Bishop airport CEO) and owner of Clinical Relief, they discussed the business of dispensaries, Clinical Relief, the future of medical marijuana in Michigan and how cities were to decide their regulation. A short time later Brooks (a lawyer and former prosecutor) memorialized the Clinical Relief meeting with a county wide memo and declared that municipalities have a right to regulate dispensaries, just as Ferndale and other cities had done.

Brooks assured Jim during their July visit that no one would ever ‘mess with’ Clinical Relief and the dispensary was fully within state law. Despite Mr. Patterson’s assurances, on August 25, 2010, men in ski masks held assault rifles to the heads of children, senior citizens, and the sick only to make a point and gain some air time. Unfortunately in that process the county killed a man (defendant) and held a press conference in which the County Sheriff described the members of Clinical Relief as Cheech and Chong gang cartels. We are not.

All sales of medical marijuana are legal in Michigan and cops don’t like it.

Today, these same members of Clinical Relief are still in court 5 years later, politician Brooks Patterson remains silent and the ringleader, prosecutor Jessica Cooper, still has horns, dated attire and continues her persecution by filing appeals and lying on the record (VIEW COMPLAINT HERE).

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