Detroit News, 09 Oct 2010 – Hundreds of chanting protesters turned up outside a Waterford district court building to chant against legal proceedings against 10 of 16 people who were arrested on Aug. 25 in a series of raids on marijuana users claiming protection under the state’s medical marijuana law. The local courts will have to sort out the validity of the charges against the defendants, but state lawmakers should heed the words of Michigan Court of Appeals Judge Peter O’Connell, who upheld charges against two Madison Heights marijuana defendants in an earlier case. Nevertheless, in the course of his ruling, O’Connell called the medical marijuana law confusing and badly drafted and called for clarification of the law on medical marijuana use, noting that the law conflicts with sections of the state Public Health Code. People have a right to have their rights and responsibilities clearly spelled out, and confusion still abounds in this area of the law. – — MAP posted-by: Richard Lake
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