Pubdate: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 Source: Allegan County News (MI) Copyright: 2011 Allegan County News Contact: http://mapinc.org/url/FSVaGOJG Website: http://www.allegannews.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3675 Author: Tim Keith, Staff Writer Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?275 (Cannabis - Michigan) WAYLAND PASSES NEW MARIJUANA MORATORIUM The Wayland City Council passed a yearlong moratorium on approving land use requests related to medical marijuana. Wayland city manager Chris Yonker said that the lack of clarity in 2008 Michigan Medical Marijuana Act made it difficult to know how to regulate the use and distribution of medical marijuana. The courts have yet to clear the matter up, Yonker said. "There haven't been any court cases that have made it to the court of appeals or the Supreme Court and that's where this thing will be sorted out," he said. The city did not have any policies dealing with medical marijuana prior to the resolution passing. The city may still act on the law during the course of the year, he said. Any new regulations would render the current moratorium void. Yonker said the city opted for a yearlong moratorium, instead of a six-month moratorium, because many of the communities that had passed the shorter ones have had to renew their moratorium for a second period of six moths. Wayland joins the cities of Plainwell and Allegan, as well as Otsego and Gun Plain Townships in passing moratoriums on approving medical marijuana land use requests. Michigan voters legalized possession and cultivation of limited amounts of marijuana for medical use in 2008. It remains illegal under federal law for any purpose and state officials have complained about several provisions of the law that they say make it vague. - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake