Despite vote, medical marijuana not coming to Ferndale any time soon
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 at 12:16 pm | By: Radical Russ
Despite vote, medical marijuana not coming to Ferndale any time soon – Daily Tribune: Breaking news coverage for southeastern Oakland County, Michigan
FERNDALE — Even though Carl Swanson won approval from city voters to dispense medical marijuana — and state voters decriminalized the drug for registered patients last month — he still won’t be open for business anytime soon.The new state medical marijuana law is in conflict with the ordinance city voters passed for Swanson’s National Organization for Positive Medicine, said City Attorney Dan Christ.
Ferndale Police Capt. Timothy Collins said Swanson’s group can expect legal resistance.
“If he tries to do what his ordinance says he will do, he will meet with every legal roadblock we can put up,” Collins said.
Collins added that the details of the Swanson ordinance are far more telling of his intentions than was the relatively brief description in the ballot language.
“His ordinance basically says that Ferndale will be the epicenter for distribution of marijuana throughout the country and internationally,” Collins said. “I think the electorate only looked at the surface of the issue and didn’t do their homework.”
The ordinance allows Swanson to distribute medical marijuana if he is able to obtain “court orders” to carry out dispensing the drug to “sick patients.”
Don’t you just love it when our elected officials and law enforcement tell us we’re stupid? Maybe, Capt. Collins, the voters knew exactly what they were voting for and liked the idea. Considering the floundering economy, especially in the auto industry, you couldn’t blame a Michigan town for considering marijuana sales.
