Pubdate: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 Source: Detroit Free Press (MI) Copyright: 2010 Detroit Free Press Contact: http://www.freep.com/article/99999999/opinion04/50926009 Website: http://www.freep.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/125 Referenced: The opinion http://mapinc.org/url/w9063y3w Related: The ACLU press release http://www.aclumich.org/issues/drug-policy/2010-12/1485 Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/topic/Michigan+medical+marijuana Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?275 (Cannabis - Michigan) Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/people/John+Ter+Beek MAN SUING OVER POT TO GET ACLU REPRESENTATION The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan said Thursday that it would represent John Ter Beek, a state-approved medical-marijuana user who sued the town of Wyoming in November, saying he feared being arrested under an ordinance if he grows or uses medical marijuana. The ACLU filed another lawsuit last week on behalf of a Birmingham couple who seek to overturn similar ordinances in Livonia, Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills. In a related case, Isabella County Chief Circuit Judge Paul Chamberlain issued an opinion Thursday that "patient-to-patient transfers and deliveries of marijuana between registered qualifying patients falls soundly within" the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act. Such transfers were the basis of charges filed by Oakland County authorities in September against operators of medical-marijuana establishments. - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake