Ferndale voters to decide medical marijuana issue — chicagotribune.com
FERNDALE, Mich. - Ferndale voters will get the chance to legalize the sale of marijuana within city limits for medical purposes.

The Detroit News reports the proposal on the Nov. 4 ballot would allow the National Organization for Positive Medicine to obtain a court order to distribute and sell medical marijuana to “sick” patients.

The Daily Tribune of Royal Oak reports the group’s Carl M. Swanson collected enough signatures to get the issue on the ballot in the Detroit suburb.

The proposal isn’t related to a statewide medical marijuana proposal.

Ferndale voters in 2005 approved an ordinance allowing the use of medical marijuana.

Don’t you just love how they put the quotation marks around the word “sick”?

Michigan is voting on statewide medical marijuana this November.  So it will be interesting to see, if that passes and this Ferndale measure passes, whether Ferndale will see the creation of medical marijuana dispensaries.

Tags: dispensaries, Ferndale, Michigan

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