Michigan Medical Cannabis

[drayman86]

Lansing among a variety of Michigan cities that have proposed a variety of zoning and other ordinances to control or eliminate medical cannabis-related businesses including dispensaries, gardens, and compassionate care clubs.

Standard business zoning would appear appropriate (after all, who wants a bloody 7-11 or a Super de Boer opening across the street from their house in a residential neighborhood), however some of the proposed language in the Lansing zoning ordinance is unique. The Lansing ordinance specifies distances that must be maintained between legitimate medical cannabis-related enterprises and places such as schools, colleges, or (get this): substance abuse treatment facilities.

This is where medical cannabis stops being treated as the legal and legitimate medication that it is and continues to purport the black-market, illicit-drug mentality that continues to be pervasive.

Lansing has NO such ordinance regulating traditional pharmacies that dispense "Big Pharma" drugs used to treat disease. Why is Lansing treating medical cannabis differently?

LANSING MEDICAL CANNABIS ORDINANCE.

[drayman86]

Michigan's Medical Cannabis laws do not specifically prohibit nor allow dispensaries, so enterprising persons are opening dispensaries across the state.

Here's a piece from the Detroit News on the topic:

MICHIGAN DISPENSARIES

[drayman86]

The Great State of Michigan became the 14th state to legalize cannabis for medical purposes. Here's a brief overview of where we stand at this point:

USA Medical Cannabis

[Pauli Wallnuts]

big step forward for your state drayman, in the uk their is absolutely zero tolerance to the plant for medicinal purposes, although the few growers who give away for free to the ill usually are treated less harshly by judge than those who grow for profits, but they are still prosecuted &get criminal records, my grandparents suffer from severe athritis & ive talked to them about making them some edibles but they are so law abiding they are afraid to do so, hopefully the uk public can 1day see through the 'red top' propaganda &back a similar law,
+do you think the recession has helped the marijuana cause?

[drayman86]

+do you think the recession has helped the marijuana cause?

Definitely helped.

Here in the states, the revenue lost from NOT taxing cannabis is being noticed by cash-strapped local officials who are seeing massive cuts in core services such as police and fire protection thanks to the Great Recession.

This is only an opinion, however I feel that the economic factors are going to play a very, very large role in decriminalization here in the states. In American, the Almighty Buck rules and instead of arguing cannabis legalization from a basic constitutional right (which is morally superior to
the ole' "make a buck" argument), it's the lost tax revenues that will ultimately turn the tide.

[Willjay]

drayman86, keep up the good work you and others are doing out their deep in the land of prohibition. Your digging your selves out faster than us in the keystone state.

Read an article in Time or Newsweek about a growers school in Detroit. Great picture of the founder in front of one plant that takes three lights to cover it.

Pauli Wallnuts, the fiscal conservatives are the ones, who will in my opinion, finally end prohibition and adopt a harm reduction approach to drugs. The world cannot afford to incarcerate all of us.