Pubdate: Thu, 22 Jul 2010
Source: Kalamazoo Gazette (MI)
Copyright: 2010 Kalamazoo Gazette
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Author: Rod Smith, Special to the Kalamazoo Gazette
Cited: Mattawan Village Council http://www.mattawanmi.com/node/5
Referenced: Michigan Medical Marijuana Act http://drugsense.org/url/8mvr7sW8
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MATTAWAN MAY BAN MEDICAL MARIJUANA SUPPLIERS

MATTAWAN - The Mattawan Village Council has asked its planning 
commission to modify the village's zoning ordinance to ban the 
manufacture or distribution of medical marijuana.

The council's decision came after a discussion in which attorney 
Scott Graham detailed potential responses to the voter-approved law 
allowing medical use of marijuana in Michigan in beginning in April 
2009. Complicating the issue for municipalities, said Graham, is that 
federal law still forbids it.

The city of Livonia banned medical marijuana by adding the sentence 
to its regulations "uses for enterprises or purposes that are 
contrary to federal, state or local laws or ordinances are prohibited."

Under that language a village resident who holds a medical marijuana 
card could possess medical marijuana, but no one in the village could 
grow, manufacture or provide it.

Other options would be limiting sale by zoning or allowing medical 
marijuana to be made or sold by permit.

After a discussion, the council decided to proceed toward a ban on 
manufacturing and distributing marijuana in the village. After the 
language comes back from the planning commission, it will formally 
vote on the matter. 
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