Michigan medical marijuana wins by 1.2 million votes

[JohnJay]

The Michigan law would permit registered patients with debilitating medical conditions including
cancer, glaucoma, HIV, hepatitis C, epilepsy and MS to grow and use marijuana;
establish a registry system for qualified patients; require establishment of a procedure
for considering the expansion of medical conditions which can be treated with medical marijuana
and permit unregistered patients and primary caregivers to assert medical reasons for using marijuana
as a defense to any prosecution involving marijuana.

May it become a model act for other states to follow for future elections ?

[SnappleLlama]

Cool...it's a step in the right direction!

[wizardwatson]

Cool...it's a step in the right direction!

Unfortunately, this is a bigger step in the wrong direction.

Calif. Prop 5 Defeated, Marijuana Initiatives in Mass. and Mich. Pass (http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2008/calif-prop-5-loses.html)

The ships going down folks. If even California can't bring themselves to decriminalize, then people just don't get it.

See what happens when you allow unions in the state-funded prison-industrial complex. They fight any laws that are for the good of society if it means they're going to lose their cushy jobs. The State never shrinks. It's either overthrown or consumes all available resources and dies.

[Jeremy]

Hopefully this doesn't happen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkMRjBauvPI

[JohnJay]

The ships going down folks. If even California can't bring themselves to decriminalize, then people just don't get it.



The defeat of California Proposition 5 is not to affect the decriminalization of medical cannabis in California -

Yes, it IS a backward step in the sentencing for non-violent crime arrests,
but that included substance abuse of more nefarious drugs than marijuana, so not as much of a surprise.

Those are the fascists that have always tried to tie cannabis to other controlled substances -
but the distinction is becoming more accepted.

Michigan and Massachusetts, now can now join along with freedom fighters in
Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawai'i, Maine, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico,
Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington for the use of medical marijuana.
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=3391

Michigan's language for being able to use it as a defense is a very strong and big step forward
in defense of cases by those non-registered for medical use of cannabis.
(i.e. medical use can be claimed after a charge)

It may be a model act for other states to vote on in future elections.