Pubdate: Sun, 17 Feb 2013
Source: Morning Sun (Mt. Pleasant, MI)
Copyright: 2013 Morning Sun
Contact:   http://www.themorningsun.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3938

AFTER RULING, LEGISLATURE NEEDS TO CLARIFY MEDICAL MARIJUANA LAW

It was something former Isabella County Prosecutor Larry Burdick
passionately believed from the beginning: medical marijuana
dispensaries do not comply with the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act.

Now that a majority of the justices on the Michigan Supreme Court have
agreed, it's time for the state Legislature to step up to the plate.

Michigan's medical marijuana law is vague at best, and at worst can
criminalize those trying to help registered patients, and the patients
themselves.

Whether the law is vague on purpose is debatable, but not the
point.

Voters approved the ballot proposal in 2008, purportedly to help those
with illnesses that marijuana can help. 
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