Darth Schuette: MI Attorney General leads his stormtroopers against medical marijuana

[marmar]

from the Detroit Metro Times:




Darth Schuette
Attorney General Bill Schuette leads his stormtroopers against medical marijuana

By Larry Gabriel
Published: September 7, 2011


If this were Star Wars, what has happened with medical marijuana in Michigan recently would be analogous to The Empire Strikes Back — wherein Darth Vader, played by state Attorney General Bill Schuette, with the state Court of Appeals collectively playing the evil emperor in the background, has led his stormtroopers in an offensive that has his opponents on the run.

On Aug. 23, the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled against Compassionate Apothecary, LLC, of Mount Pleasant, saying that patient-to-patient sales of medical marijuana were not legal. Judge Joel P. Hoekstra wrote this about the voter-approved Michigan Medical Marihuana Act: "The 'medical use' of marihuana, as defined by the MMMA, does not include patient-to-patient 'sales' of marihuana, and no other provision of the MMMA can be read to permit such sales."

Apparently the only legal way for certified medical marijuana patients to get some medicine is to find some on the porch.

The next day, two dispensaries in Ann Arbor, Med Mar and Liberty Clinic, were raided, while dispensaries across the state — estimates are as many as 500 of them — closed their doors or removed all medication from the premises and only advised clients on what to do. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://metrotimes.com/mmj/darth-schuette-1.1198822

[blm]

1. Is he related to Keith Schuette (GOP hierarchy, manipulates foreign policy for profit)?

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[Occulus]

2. Weren't we promised these raids would stop? n/t

[MindPilot]

3. Yes.

Yet another reason I'm begining to believe I would rather see a radical Libertarian in the white house than another faux liberal.

[EC]

4. This is state not federal

Justice Department nor Obama have anything to do with this.

On edit: I'm guessing the repubs in the state wrote this law so that this would happen. It's legal but there is no distribution outlet. Either the congress in MI is inept or it was purposely written this way.

[blm]

5. If Bill Schuette IS related to Keith Schuette this is certainly all about politics and power.

Most likely the fascist grab of the prison system (for profit) and the power to dictate who ends up in those prisons (for power).

[Occulus]

6. But *because of* the state charges, they could face Federal charges as well

which is part of the entire runaround.

Oh, of course they wrote it this way intentionally. This is the same sort of legislative chicanery we see from the Marihuana Tax Stamp. Remember, in Michigan, you're dealing with a Legislature and a Governor who are literally taking the food from the mouths of the poor starting in October. We are going to have a lot of cold, hungry, and desperate people here, and winter is coming.

[atheistprogress]

7. Does obama have the right to access medical marijuana?

DC citizens have the right... hes a citizen of dc... so...