It appears city officials in Clio are uninterested in the voice of Michigan voters. Why don’t you Michigan voters set them straight on this by reminding them that medical marijuana users have very good memories when it comes to casting votes on Election Day?
Officials in Clio are working to keep medical marijuana businesses out of the city.
The Flint Journal reports an ordinance would bar a business license for a store that violates local, state or federal law. The city about 65 miles northwest of Detroit says it would block medical marijuana businesses because federal law bans marijuana.
More than 100 people gathered to voice concerns about regulations drawn by the Michigan Department of Community Health, which will oversee the program starting April 4.
Under the draft rules, registered users of marijuana for medical purposes or their caregivers would have to keep records of the amounts of marijuana they grow, and users would have to identify other users on registration forms.
“I don’t have to tell my pharmacist every other patient who my doctor has written a prescription for,” Francisco said.
Some rules imposed actions not mentioned in the law, including requiring users to keep all marijuana under lock and key, instead of just plants. Melissa DiPirro, of the Macomb County office of substance abuse, spoke in favor of the rule, adding that prescription drugs should be locked up as well.
The requirement that patients would have to keep an inventory of how much cannabis they grow certainly would patients at risk for federal prosecution; what US Attorney wouldn’t want to have a nice neat ledger of federal drug manufacturing activity to prosecute?
Another of the proposed rules would define “public view” for the purposes of the law that requires patients to use out of “public view”. Â As proposed, “public view” would be so restrictive you couldn’t use cannabis in your own home if the windows were open or on your back porch if your neighbor’s two-story home looks over your eight-foot-privacy fence.
Finally, I could actually support a measure that required cannabis to be kept under lock and key… so long as you’re going to apply that standard to alcohol, tobacco, and prescription drugs, too.  But to think a patient would be punished because children might get into her unlocked stash of cannabis when she had a bottle of Bacardi 151 in the cupboard, a pack of smokes on the coffee table, and a bottle of Darvocet in the bathroom medicine cabinet seems to be missing the point.
Friday, January 2nd, 2009 at 1:50 pm | By: Radical Russ
LANSING, MICHIGAN — Marijuana Policy Project director of state policies Karen O’Keefe and Michigan patients will urge revisions to the Michigan Department of Community Health’s draft medical marijuana regulations at a hearing Jan. 5. O’Keefe and the patients will argue that the draft rules impose several new restrictions on patients that exceed the department’s authority under Proposal 1, the medical marijuana initiative passed by voters in November, and that some proposed rules would put patients at unnecessary risk.
Among the rules considered problematic are requirements that patients or caregivers submit written inventory reports of medical marijuana they grow, that all medical marijuana — not just plants — be kept in an enclosed, locked facility, and a definition of “public use” that would make it illegal for patients to use medical marijuana in their own homes with the curtains open.
“Nothing in Proposal 1 gives the department authority to require inventory records, and doing so would put patients at risk,” O’Keefe said. “None of the other medical marijuana states has such a rule, because as long as marijuana cultivation remains a federal crime, it would require patients to incriminate themselves in writing.”
“The requirement that all medical marijuana be kept in a locked, enclosed facility is stricter than any requirement imposed on prescription morphine, methamphetamine or OxyContin,” said patient Lynn Allen of Williamston. “The rule in Proposal 1 applies only to plants, and the department has no authority to expand it.”
“Still,” O’Keefe added, “we understand that this is just a draft, and we appreciate the effort the department is making to seek input and make adjustments based on what they hear from patients and others.” O’Keefe’s full, written comments on the rules are available here.
WHAT: MCDH hearing on proposed medical marijuana regulations.
WHO: MPP director of state policies Karen O’Keefe; patients Ken Shapiro (metastatic melanoma, East Lansing), Lynn Allen (AIDS/hepatitis C, Lansing) and Clint Winger (rheumatoid arthritis/degenerative disc disease, Coldwater), plus others as available.
WHEN: Jan. 5, 2009: 9 a.m.
WHERE: State Secondary Complex, General Office Building, 7150 Harris Drive, Conference Room A, Lansing.
The Web site, www.Michigan.gov/mmp, overviews Michigan’s Medical Marijuana Act and the requirements for patients to apply for the program.
The act went into effect Dec. 4, but administrative rules and the full program are expected to be finalized in April.
“The new Web site is especially clear on how the program will function and it serves as a valuable resource for health professionals, caregivers and patients who are seeking alternatives to help relieve the chronic pain associated with many conditions,” said MDCH Director Janet Olszewski.
The MDCH will hold a public meeting at 9 a.m. Jan. 5 in Lansing at the State Secondary Complex General Office Building, at 7150 Harris Drive.
The meeting will be an outlet for the community to give comments on the proposed rules for beginning a registration process for the medical use of marijuana.
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Tere Joyce and Laurie Buckley join us today to talk about a new PR campaign to upgrade the image of marijuana, and from the NORML Board of Directors, George Rohrbacher analyzes the medical marijuana proposal votes in Michigan.
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 at 10:08 am | By: Radical Russ
Marijuana Law Reform – NORML
By a huge margin, 3,008,980 to 1,792,870, Michigan’s voters approved a ballot measure legalizing physician directed medical marijuana, making it America’s thirteenth state to legalize medical marijuana. State medical marijuana laws now cover over 25 percent of the nation’s population. Michigan became the first Midwest state to join this growing green fraternity.
A review the Michigan State Auditor’s website and their county-by-county election results proves interesting reading. Medical marijuana won in every single county! All 83 counties in the state of Michigan—urban, suburban, or rural passed the measure, and by a margin of over a million votes. It had won in farming, logging, mining, and manufacturing counties! Everywhere the question was asked in Michigan on November 4, the electorate said yes to medical marijuana. In the state’s five largest urban counties, the margins were enormous, an eye-popping 2:1 vote for marijuana.
Medical marijuana received 130,000 more votes in Michigan than even the Obama victory did.
Of the twelve states or districts that have put cannabis medicine to a vote since 1996, eleven of them passed medical marijuana, with only South Dakota defeating the measure with a low of 48% support. Â The other measures passed with votes from 54% to 69%. Â (1996: CA 56%, AZ 65%; 1998 OR 55%, WA 59%, AK 58%, DC 69%; 1999 ME 61%; 2000 CO 54%, NV 65%; 2004 MT 62%; 2006 SD 48%; 2008 MI 63% – Arizona’s and DC’s laws are inoperable, though, since Arizona relies on federal prescriptions and DC was blocked from implementing the law by the Barr Amendment.)
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 at 6:48 pm | By: Radical Russ
The results of the 2008 election are in and marijuana law reformers are big winners in state and local ballot initiatives.
Michigan became the 13th medical marijuana state with 63% of voters approving Proposal 1.
Massachusetts became the 13th state to decriminalize the personal possession of marijuana with 65% of voters approving Question 2.
Fayetteville, Arkansas voters decided marijuana offenses should be the lowest law-enforcement priority by 65%.
Voters on the Big Island (Hawaii County), Hawaii voted to make possession of 24 ounces and 24 plants the lowest law enforcement priority, and to forbid county officials from cooperating in or accepting funds for marijuana eradication efforts on the island.
In bad news, however, Oregon’s Measure 57 passed with 61% of the vote, establishing new mandatory minimum sentences for repeat drug offenders, among other things. Measure 61 was still at 50%, but even if it passes, it fails because 57 got more votes (61’s mandatory minimums would have included first-time drug offenders)
More bad news comes from California’s Proposition 5 (the Non-Violent Offender Rehabilitation Act) which failed with only 40% of the vote. In addition to diverting non-violent drug offenders to treatment, it would have decriminalized personal possession of marijuana.
But there were some successes in California. Proposition 6 was defeated by 70% of the vote, a measure that would have required the eviction of people from public housing for a recent drug offense. Berkeley, California’s Measure JJ passed with 62% of the vote, which will ease restrictions on zoning for medical marijuana dispensaries.
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 at 9:44 pm | By: Radical Russ
Along with the victory by President-Elect Obama, we are thrilled to announce that Michigan will now be the thirteenth medical marijuana state with their passage of Proposal 1 and that Massachusetts will now be the thirteenth marijuana decrim state with their passage of Question 2. We’re still awaiting the results from California on Proposition 5.
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It’s our special election roundup here on the Stash. Â We’ve got the experts here to give their take on state and local initiatives to be decided tomorrow:
Ethan Nadelmann, Drug Policy Alliance, on California’s Proposition 5 to move non-violent drug offenders to treatment instead of jail and decriminalize personal possession of marijuana;
There is also a measure on the ballot in Hawaii County (Big Island), Hawaii to end helicopter fly-overs to uproot marijuana plants, forbid county law enforcement participation in marijuana raids, and make possession of 24 ounces or less the lowest law enforcement priority. Â Learn more at Project Peaceful Sky.
It should go without saying, but don’t forget to
VOTE!
I know some of you think it doesn’t matter, they’re all the same, it’s hopeless, I hate ‘em all, whatever, but a cannabis consumer who doesn’t vote is like a battered spouse who keeps forgiving the batterer. Â Your voice matters! Â If people didn’t think voting mattered, California would never have passed Prop 215 and all the positive gains of the past dozen years may not have happened.
We can do this. Â There are literally millions of us. Â We’ve got the public mostly on our side; now it’s the politicians who need education. Â The winds of change are blowing and we may have the best political atmosphere for drug law reform yet – the perfect storm of progressive leadership, popular will, and fiscal need. Â Vote as if your freedom depends on it… because it does.
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No medical marijuana in Clio, Michigan?
It appears city officials in Clio are uninterested in the voice of Michigan voters. Why don’t you Michigan voters set them straight on this by reminding them that medical marijuana users have very good memories when it comes to casting votes on Election Day?
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