http://www.theoaklandpress.com/articles/2011/06/27/news/doc4e08dd277a7b1838128564.txt?viewmode=fullstory
http://www.freep.com/article/20120531/NEWS06/120531054/Michigan-Supreme-Court-Medical-marijuana-patients-safe-from-prosecution
This is so satisfying.
http://www.freep.com/article/20120531/NEWS06/120531054/Michigan-Supreme-Court-Medical-marijuana-patients-safe-from-prosecution
This is so satisfying.
One year later..."The Supreme Court as it exists will look at the statute and construe it very narrowly," Cooper said Monday. "That is the philosophy of the Supreme Court."
The Michigan Supreme Court, in its first major ruling on a case arising from the use of medical marijuana, said today that the state's voter-approved law on medicinal pot provides relatively broad legal protection from prosecution, even for patients who do not register for a state medical marijuana card.
In a pair of cases out of Oakland and Shiawassee counties, the court ruled unanimously that lower-court interpretations of the marijuana statute had been too restrictive.