Police Unsure of Michigan Medical Marijuana Law
By admin at 1 April, 2009, 4:34 pm
This week police in a Detroit, Michigan suburb raided a 59-year-old man’s home taking 21 marijuana plants with them. But afterward police were still unsure if the man had broken any law.
Bob Redden says he was assured by his doctor that he was doing nothing illegal by using medical marijuana to treat the pain he suffers from bone disease and two deteriorating hips. But that didn’t appear to be the case Monday when Madison Heights police broke through his front door with a battering ram.
“They stole my plants and my money,” Redden told the Detroit News. “We are devastated. The door is torn up. They treated me like I was a criminal. I can’t believe this is happening to me. I was assured by my doctor this medical marijuana was going to help and they assured me this is legal.”
But police acknowledge they are unclear on how to enforce the state’s recently enacted medical marijuana laws.
“We don’t know what the rules are,” Madison Heights police chief Kevin Sagan told the Detroit Free Press. “This is a new situation for all of us.”
First the people of Michigan voted, I believe that America is still a democracy and the majority rules. How is it possible then that this man is arrested for something that is now legal in the State of Michigan.
If your State Legislators did not set out the specific laws for medicinal marijuana, how is it this man’s fault. Go arrest your state government officials.