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About Michigan Medical
Marijuana
On November 4th 2008 Michigan voters
elected to instate the
Michigan Medical Marijuana Act. On April 4th 2009 the state of
Michigan started accepting applications from medical
marijuana patients.
Since then there has been some growing pains. Many patients
and caregivers have found solace in the Michigan Medical
Marijuana Act. Some have found hardship.
The lawmakers and enforcers seem to think the law is vague
and gray but many who understand marijuana don't think the
law is vague at all.
Either way change has come and marijuana is now legally
considered to be medicine. |
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Several Bills have been written in attempt to throw a wrench
in the progress of the Medical Marijuana industry in
Michigan. Right now we are are facing another Bill that
would nullify our right to assemble as medical marijuana
users in certain instances. Our leaders wish to make it so
patients can't test their medical marijuana before procuring
it. Medical grade marijuana isn't inexpensive and each
strain can have effects that are individual to the user.
This means one strain may work well for one patient but not
so well for another patient.
This Bill would also make all compassion clubs, dispensaries
and group marijuana consumption illegal. The excuse is that
patients would consume marijuana and drive while under the
influence which brings us to another issue. There has been
little testing that marijuana negatively effects driving
capabilities. Recent testing in other countries has
confirmed that people who drive under the influence of
marijuana actually drive safer than people who are not under
the influence. I'm not exactly sure this would be the case
if someone has over consumed but some testing needs to be
done. If it is proven that marijuana negatively effects most
drivers under the influence then there needs to be some kind
of test that can verify that a driver is currently under the
influence. The tests the state currently use can only verify
that a driver has used marijuana in the past 30-45 days.
That lack of accuracy is totally unacceptable. Marijuana
only effects a user in a psychoactive manor for an hour or 2
in most cases, especially for those who consume marijuana
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Our law makers are bullies who
want to make us take the medicine they believe in.
Pharmaceutical medicine isn't the answer for everybody
though.
People have been taking pain killers and other
pharmaceutical drugs that effect psychoactive activity for
years but they never got the kind of hassle that legal
marijuana users are getting now.
Many local Michigan townships and cities are writing what we
like to call toilet paper ordinances. These ordinances often
supersede the state medical marijuana act, the right to farm
act and other constitutional rights. The cities lawmakers
are getting sued and are costing the tax payers money that
they don't have. Violating these local ordinances is a civil
infraction and come with a slap on the wrist punishment.
Most growers refuse to abide by these ordinances and this is
why we refer to them as toilet paper ordinances.
If your city or township is trying to undermine your right
to privacy and to take your medicine then you need to get
out there and fight. Don't be intimated by them, medical
marijuana is legal in the state of Michigan! |
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