Michigan's Medical Marijuana Law and the Madison Heights Police

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What a load of crap that the police and take your possessions with no proof.

That is the law. Ask your Congressman why that's legal.

it should be legal! medical uses for this drug are wonderful!!!! you have to show proof in court, why don't they?

here we have the stamp tax, go figure, pay taxes on something that's illegal. Think about just giving yourself to the government. Register for the stamp. So that you don't get into trouble for not paying taxes-but you still get busted just the same.

I live in Madison Heights, and hadn't even heard about this.

The problem is that the state hasn't gotten the darn cards sent out yet so that people can prove that what they are doing IS legal in Michigan. My father-in-law is dying of cancer, and his doctor has suggested using it, but he's still wadding through the red tape of the law to get his ID card. At the rate the state is moving he'll be lucky if he even gets the chance to see if it helps him.

Also, if this guy had 21 plants in his house I think there may be more to this story. I believe the law only allows you to have 5 plants in a locked location for your own medical use.

I hadn't heard of this one either. But to answer your question about the amount of plants. It is 12 as bob said. In an enclosed locked location. The rest of the law just says 2.5 ounces of usable cannabis... not including any unusable parts of the plants, seeds, stalks or roots.

And Rachel.. it may seem like alot of plants. But considering the circumstances of it being grown indoors.. they were most likely smaller sized plants. And from those it'd be unlikely to get more than an ounce of usable cannabis from each one. I don't know how the law feels about it.. but if it takes a minimum of 4 months to get the plants to harvest it would only work out to 21 ounces aproximately for every 4 months. Course that does sound like alot to use too. 5 ounces a month would be double what a person is allowed. More than i could imagine anyone using. But then again.. perhaps he only wanted to grow plants once a year. And that is something that i guess the state hasn't figured out yet. What if they want to grow once and store it for later? And then again.. they'd all have to be female plants in order for that to be even usable. From that article it's impossible to tell if any of them were usable plants at all.

I agree with Nora. I don't know the laws but 21 plants sounds excessive for medical use.

"The way the law is written it doesn't provide users carte blanche. They have to follow the rules. If we don't know what the rules are, it's in limbo."

It is NOT the law. It WAS the law. It is interesting that some are willing to give the police the benefit of the doubt. If the law has been repealed, then until they provide the "rules" that the law apparently refers to, essentially everyone does have carte blanche. It should not be the other way around. "Limbo" should not fall on the part to benefit accused the accused, or these "rules" will just never get written. That way they can keep the law in place even though it no longer exists.

My uncle was given medical marijuana for cancer pain management. That was four years ago and he lives in Michigan. I'd think a prescription would specify the amount allowed and the drug provided to the patient.
I'm not sure the law gives a patient license to grow his own plants. It sounds as if he was growing more than he would need himself. I think there should have been specifics in place before medical marijuana was legalized. Confiscating assets is common in drug busts. If the police are wrong, the man will surely get his money back.

Also, if this guy had 21 plants in his house I think there may be more to this story. I believe the law only allows you to have 5 plants in a locked location for your own medical use

According to the article, you can have 12 plants for each person, and he had paperwork saying that some of them belonged to his sister, who has cancer.

f the police are wrong, the man will surely get his money back.

Constitutionally, the police are wrong, but no one has ever gotten their money back. I have seen a few documentaries about this.

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This was happening here in CA too for a while after 215 passed. Since Obama requested the police (local not federal) not to arrest anyone in these clinics it has been OK here, the dispenser at the shop I use said they would go after them, the farmacia not the clients. It will come around eventually, but law is law and we have the rights to deal with pain and other ailments with any drug we deem fit for us.

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Well that stinks.

Something similar has happened here in Spokane recently as well. Washington to allows medical marijuana. It is states rights vs Federal so not sure how this is all going to play out. The police knew in the situation here that the man had a prescription but they took it anyway and he did not have a lot of plants. It goes to court in a few weeks or months.

As an official "Old Fogey" (now 66+), I'm not sure what I think about the medical marijuana law here in Michigan. But I AM sure that the "War on Drugs" is living proof of that old definition of insanity (doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result). The police in this case appear to be a tad over-zealous, and I will say that for the most part, no one gets his money back after one of these - no matter the outcome of any trial or other fact-finding. I just wish the law enforcement folks wouldn't smirk when they tell you , "No!" Smug ain't nice.

Pot and hemp were used for centuries both as medicine and as an industrial plant. It wasn't until black jazz musicians made it "cool" that it became a problem. It's been proven time and again, do your own research, that it can and does relieve pain, increases appetite, and is a generally useful plant. The puritans need to get off the cross.

Dad-Do you realize that when Mom's MS gets to the point that the meds don't work anymore, or aren't as effective, she could be prescribed pot? And that it might be the ONLY thing that makes her life liveable?

Ridiculous!

My good friend Rachel has MS, and smoking pot really helps ease her symptoms.