FreePress: Schuette Wages War Against The People’s Law
If there’s anything Bill Schuette has established in his first year as Michigan’s attorney general — besides an appetite for media attention rivaling that of Sarah Palin or Geoffrey Fieger — it’s that he won’t stand for the federal government to trample on the rights of the people of Michigan. Unless, or course, the right in question is one that...
Read MoreLaw enforcement: Despite confusion, one thing is clear, profiting is illegal
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 By JAMESON COOK Justice Peter D. O’Connell of the state Court of Appeals last year used a popular culture reference to explain what he called Michigan medical marijuana law’s “obfuscations, ambiguous language and confusingly overlapping sections.” “Reading this act is similar to participating in the Triwizard Tournament described in...
Read MoreAttorney disappointed by Twinn Bridges ruling
Attorney disappointed by Twinn Bridges ruling Midland Daily News by Kelly Dame Posted: Monday, September 12, 2011 11:32 am The attorney representing a local man and the marijuana dispensary he ran is disappointed with a judge’s ruling to close the shop and is calling for the legalization of marijuana. Owner Chris Gee had already shut down the Twinn Bridges Compassion Club, 559 E. Isabella...
Read MoreCOMMENTARY: A different view on medical marijuana By Thomas Lavigne, JD
Saturday, September 3, 2011 11:38 AM EDT By Thomas Lavigne, JD Cannabis Counsel PLC Law Firm, Detroit Your recent article on medical cannabis is very inaccurate in several regards. Dr. Fredrick Neumann of Sterling Heights is a family practitioner who writes recommendations for approximately 10 percent of his longtime patients. Doctors are already being attacked by forcing them to close their...
Read MoreAppeals court: Medical marijuana users must have I.D. to grow plants
August 31, 2011 BY JOE SWICKARD DETROIT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER In a second major medical marijuana decision this month, the Michigan Court of Appeals said that users must have their state-issued identification cards before they can legally grow their own drugs. With their ruling in a Montmorency County case, appellate judges upheld a Circuit Court decision that Brian Bebout Reed could be...
Read MoreMI Attorney General, Bill Schuette: Ruling Against Medical Marijuana Dispensary a Victory for Public Safety, Local Communities
Contact: John Sellek or Joy Yearout 517-373-8060 Agency: Attorney General August 24, 2011LANSING – Attorney General Bill Schuette today praised an important ruling from the Michigan Court of Appeals which found marijuana dispensaries conducting patient-to-patient sales are illegal and can be shut down under Michigan’s public nuisance law. The case arose from Schuette and...
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