Pubdate: Sat, 23 Feb 2013
Source: Detroit Free Press (MI)
Copyright: 2013 Detroit Free Press
Contact: http://www.freep.com/article/99999999/opinion04/50926009
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/125
Author: Douglas L. Harback

STOP FIGHTING THE WILL OF PEOPLE ON MEDICAL MARIJUANA

State Attorney General Bill Schuette is again fighting the will of the
people. He has somehow convinced the state Supreme Court to rule
against patients and caregivers.

Schuette was elected by the same taxpayers and voters who passed the
Medical Marijuana Law. The Supreme Court missed the boat. They had a
chance to fix what the voters failed to address in the law.

We, as a state, do not offer a legal resource for caregivers to get
seeds or small marijuana plants. They are required in order to
cultivate marijuana. The state needs to come up with a licensed retail
program. There is no other way to legally acquire marijuana products
in this state.

Patients count on caregivers to provide for them. It is their only
resource. Reality is crops fail. This leaves the patient with no legal
resource to get their medicine. Now patients must break the law to
follow the law.

Schuette should stop fighting the will of the people. Give patients
and caregivers a legal way to access medical marijuana products.

Douglas L. Harback

Blanchard
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