Detroit Legalizes Meds

[zeppelindood]

One of the more controversial issues on the ballot is one that would legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes only and only in Detroit. Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick says he’ll vote “no”.
“I’m against it. I don’t really like how it’s written or anything. It’s unlike any other proposal that’s ever been presented before. It’s Detroit specific, which makes the drug legal in Detroit. I’m absolutely 100-percent against it. I don’t think that it’s doing anything else but making drugs more pervasive in our community only, which… how could a mayor be for that at all,” says Kilpatrick.

The proposal would still not override state laws against the use of marijuana, and some experts are saying the ballot issue will have no effect.

they held the election today... the people have spoken ~

DETROIT PROPOSAL
MEDICAL MARIJUNANA
YES 38,604 59%
NO 26,497 41%
100% reporting

a yes vote is to legalize

off to get my med card ~

 

[zeppelindood]

Good Stuff

Good Stuff

Detroit voted Tuesday to allow residents to use and possess marijuana for medical purposes. The measure does not affect state and federal law. "I always knew Detroit would come through for people who need help," said Rochelle Lampkin, a city resident who smokes marijuana for relief from multiple sclerosis. The city's proposal earned almost 60 percent approval from votes. It follows on the heels of a movement that has spread mainly in the West. But now other Midwestern cities, including Ann Arbor, Madison, Wis., and Columbia, Mo., are looking at similar measures. "A lot of places that are in your traditional Midwest are looking more like Berkeley, Los Angeles, Portland," said Allen St. Pierre, executive director for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, a Washington, D.C.-based group in favor of legalizing the drug. So far, nine states -- Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont and Washington -- allow the use of medical marijuana. The Detroit proposal exempts residents who use or possess marijuana for medical purposes from the portion of the city code that makes the drug illegal. That means Detroit police officers would not arrest or ticket residents with medical permission. Those found to illegally possess marijuana still would face up to 90 days in jail and a $500 fine. Federal agents, state police and county sheriff's deputies could still arrest people with marijuana in the city. But law enforcement officials say most marijuana possession cases are handled by Detroit police. "Our narcotics unit, we're looking for dealers. We're trying to get to the source of the problem," said Lawrence Meyer, undersheriff and chief deputy with the Wayne County Sheriff's Office. Drug Enforcement Agency special agent David Jacobson said the medical marijuana effort is a veiled push to legalize the drug. Advocates of medical marijuana "are preying on the compassion of people across the United States . . . but there is no value to smoking marijuana," he said. He would not say whether federal authorities would arrest or prosecute Detroiters found with marijuana for medical reasons, as has happened in other states with similar laws. Timothy Beck, head of the Detroit Coalition for Compassionate Care, the group that led the effort to place the proposal on the ballot, said smoking marijuana eases the suffering of people with AIDS, cancer and other diseases. "It's simple human justice," Beck said. "We find it reprehensible that people who are sick would be persecuted like criminals."

 

[zeppelindood]

today is a good day.... it's cause for celebration but still much more evil to rebuke ~ can you believe the opposition... where are their heads????

 

[zeppelindood]

odam

odam

here's a link for ya.....

http://www.freep.com/news/locway/marij4_20040804.htm

 

[BuzzBob]

That is excellent news, Zep!

I am curious, has there been a trend once a city in a state legalizes? In other states, is it like a movement which tends to spread statewide?

That would sure be good news for me, as I live in Misery... errr... Missouri. And Columbia {where MSU is based} is listed in that article.

Sure would be nice to see some positive movement in this matter here 'bouts!


-Bob

 

[zeppelindood]

i noticed that bob... it does seem to carry a bit of a wave to it. here, ann arbor is about to legalize and several other communities are looking to put on ballot.

 

[zeppelindood]

another link

another link

http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/michigan/index.ssf?/base/politics-0/1091608875211420.xml

 

[zeppelindood]

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Authorities eradicated more than 219 (m) million marijuana plants in Indiana last year. But only a tiny fraction of those were intentionally grown.

Police say all but about 31-thousand of the plants were growing wild. Sometimes called ditch weed, the wild marijuana plant has less than one-half percent of T-H-C, which is the chemical that causes a smoker to get high.

But State Police Corporal Mike Crabtree says even small amounts of T-H-C can get people high.

So far, Indiana police have harvested more than 19 (m) million wild marijuana plants and confiscated almost 13-thousand cultivated marijuana plants this year. That's more than 200 percent higher than at this time last year.

 

[Guest]

CONGRATS MO-TOWN

One Down many to go !

 

[mark6699331]

Oh,No it can't!!!

Oh,No it can't!!!

Believe me I tried. once bought an ounce of "ditch" weed my michigan tech friends "in da U. P." sold me for a BRO deal of thrity dollars. Needless to say it looked ok, even smelled ok, except for the little orange live bug/spiders crawling all over it. But we spent the better half of the day smoking furiously on the shores of pictured rocks lakeshore nat'l prark to no avial. no get high...no get high... need more than 1%.... news flash.... headache.... lungs hurt....


also, since when, in ann arbor, has it ever really been illegal. I had a friend in 1989 get like a five or twenty dollar ticket for his weed there and the man still let him keep the weed!!!! He just got ticketed for smoking his bowl in public. And that was at the height of greenmerchant if you know what I mean. Where michganders elsewhere were getting three stikes to life on drug charges. My girlfriend lost her license and was on prob. for three years for 1.8 grams first offense, possesion.!!!!!

my advice, move to the emerald triangle in north. cal. The weather is much nicer 45-75- year round. Mendocino county has lehalized something like thirty plants even for non-medical use.
and humboldt co. has just ok'd a county law for 3pounds personal stash/year. And no limit on plants or lights just size, what you can fit in a 10X10 ft. space. Am I dreaming or am I just in california?????


ps-the law also allows you to sue the police for street value of your medicine if they illegally seize it and mess it up!

 

[mark6699331]

Oh but wait perhaps mike...

Oh but wait perhaps mike...

Crabtree leoman knows something I don't. With thirty one thousand ditch plants you probably could make some sort of concoction that would get you high. he does sound pretty sure of his statement!
mark
ps we have a "man" out where I live who has medical 215 marji. I recently heard another local leo tell a dude nearby who was smoking cigarettes that it would be much better and healthier for the dude to just smoke maryjane instead. FOR REALS...SOMETIMES>>>TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION<<<

 

[I.M. Boggled]

Harvest day...Baling it up

Harvest day...Baling it up

 

[mark6699331]

Bail it up, Detriot!

Bail it up, Detriot!

Exactly, I.M. Boggled.

Oh, yeah, and while you're at it.

Don't count the money, weigh it.

mark

 

[Guest]

midwestern ditchweed is some killer stuff... give yah a killer headache and killer sore thoat...

I'd like to see that LEO get off on some ditchweed.