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Ferndale, Michigan, voters to decide medical marijuana issue

By "Radical" Russ Belville on June 17, 2008

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.

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One response to “Ferndale, Michigan, voters to decide medical marijuana issue”

  1. Tony El- Kassouf
    Tony El- Kassouf
    August 21, 2009 at 1:20 am |

    To me, it’s a “MUST!” I’ve had the card since NOV.4,2008, but still haven’t had any medical marijuana yet. You can think of it’s like saying, how can plant a tree if you don’t have the seed. In other words, why give us the card, but not the weed. Isn’t that the reason we got the card, so we can we have our medicine with no cops on our butts! But no, just let us stay sick for another year. And this is to the government, not to you NORML.

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