Pubdate: Fri, 17 Dec 2010
Source: Detroit Free Press (MI)
Copyright: 2010 Detroit Free Press
Contact: http://www.freep.com/article/99999999/opinion04/50926009
Website: http://www.freep.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/125
Referenced: The opinion http://mapinc.org/url/w9063y3w
Related: The ACLU press release 
http://www.aclumich.org/issues/drug-policy/2010-12/1485
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/topic/Michigan+medical+marijuana
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?275 (Cannabis - Michigan)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/people/John+Ter+Beek

MAN SUING OVER POT TO GET ACLU REPRESENTATION

The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan said Thursday that it 
would represent John Ter Beek, a state-approved medical-marijuana 
user who sued the town of Wyoming in November, saying he feared being 
arrested under an ordinance if he grows or uses medical marijuana.

The ACLU filed another lawsuit last week on behalf of a Birmingham 
couple who seek to overturn similar ordinances in Livonia, Birmingham 
and Bloomfield Hills.

In a related case, Isabella County Chief Circuit Judge Paul 
Chamberlain issued an opinion Thursday that "patient-to-patient 
transfers and deliveries of marijuana between registered qualifying 
patients falls soundly within" the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act. 
Such transfers were the basis of charges filed by Oakland County 
authorities in September against operators of medical-marijuana 
establishments.  
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