In five brief pages full of legal reasoning and bereft of common sense, the Michigan Court of Appeals has, for all intents and purposes, rendered the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act useless. On April 17, the court published its opinion in People v. Koon, holding that the MMMA does not contain an exemption for drivers under the state's criminal code, which prohibits operating a vehicle with any amount of a Schedule I controlled substance in your system. The problem is that, unlike the other Schedule I drugs such as heroin and meth, the main active compound in marijuana, known as THC, stores in your fat cells, keeping it in your body for weeks, well after its affects have worn off, and no accurate test has been developed to determine when active THC becomes a harmless byproduct. [continues 472 words]
When I need tomatoes for pasta sauce, I don't walk down my street knocking on doors asking if anybody has ripe romas. I go to the grocery store. When I need a T-shirt, I don't drive 1,200 miles to the nearest cotton farm, pick a bale of cotton, spin it and sew together a shirt. I go to Aeropostale. Or occasionally Target. And when my son has an ear infection, I don't phone random people asking if they have any spare antibiotics. I go to the pharmacy. [continues 468 words]
