Michigan Medical Marijuana

                  
 
 

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.

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 every day.

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!