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The Michigan Court of Appeals has further clarified the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act (MMMA) as a defense to possession of the drug.
It ordered an Ottawa County District Court to dismiss charges against a defendant arrested last May near the Grandville water plant. James Nicholson had an ounce of marijuana but had his application in his car at his residence.
The court said police can arrest a person who does not have the MMMA card or approved application with them. But that charge must be dismissed when the card-holder provides proof of qualification at the time the arrest was made “unless evidence exists to show that his possession of marijuana at the time was not in accordance with medical use as defined in the MMMA.”
The District Court had implied that a qualified person had to have “immediate possession” of the card. Attorneys for Nicholson had argued the arrest itself was illegal.
WASHINGTON-Michigan’s guitar-playing Republican Rep. Thaddeus McCotter announced his resignation Friday, invoking Bob Dylan in a statement as he gave up his congressional seat after a tumultuous year.
“I must ‘strike another match, go start anew,'” McCotter said in a statement.
McCotter, 46, launched a long-shot bid for the White House but then failed to qualify to run for re-election to the House seat he has represented in the Southeast Detroit area for the past decade.
McCotter attempted a write-in campaign to get on the ballot, but he abandoned that in the spring – days after the Michigan attorney general started an investigation into possible fraudulent nominating petitions filed on his behalf. McCotter had requested the investigation and said Friday he would continue to help with it.
The “recent event’s totality of calumnies, indignities and deceits have weighed most heavily upon my family,” McCotter said.
Among the more accomplished guitar players in Congress, McCotter acknowledged that he had no job on the horizon as he announced a decision that took many in Washington by surprise.
“I do not leave for an existing job and face diminishing prospects (and am both unwilling and ill-suited to lobby),” McCotter wrote. “My priorities are twofold: find gainful employment to help provide for my family; and continue to assist, in any way they see fit, the Michigan attorney general’s earnest and thorough investigation, which I requested, into the 2012 petition filing.”
McCotter tweeted earlier that his remaining political funds would be donated to a children’s research hospital.
The seat had been expected to remain in the GOP column this fall until the events of the past several months unfolded, presenting Democrats with a possible opportunity to pick up the long-held Republican seat.
McCotter’s office will remain open under the House clerk, as is usually the case when there is a sudden vacancy.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/06/4614546/thaddeus-mccotter-guitar-playing.html#storylink=cpy
Lansing, MI: The Supreme Court for the state of Michigan has ruled that city election officials cannot prevent Detroit voters from deciding on a municipal ballot measure that seeks to remove marijuana possession penalties for those age 21 or older.
The Court refused to review an appeal brought by the Detroit City Clerk’s office and the Detroit Election Commission that sought to strike down the proposed ballot question, sponsored by the group Coalition for a Safer Detroit.
In 2010, the Coalition collected over 6,000 signatures from registered voters to place the measure on that year’s electoral ballot. The vote failed to take place, however, because election officials at the time alleged that the proposal conflicted with state anti-drug laws.
This past February, the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that Detroit election officials acted illegally in 2010 when they denied voters the opportunity to decide on the issue. “[Plaintiff[s] had a clear legal right to the placement of the initiative on the ballot,” the court ruled.
The Supreme Court’s ruling upholds the Appellate court’s decision. Detroit voters will now decide on the measure this November.
Commenting on the ruling, Tim Beck – head of the Coalition for a Safer Detroit and the former Executive Director of Michigan NORML – said: “This case in Detroit was not just about marijuana. Had we lost in court, the local initiative process itself would have been rendered meaningless statewide, no matter what the issue might be.”
He added, “We expect a major victory for Detroit cannabis consumers this November.”
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