FLCS’s Chris Forsyth to speak at Medical Marijuana Seminar
Chris Forsyth will be speaking at a Medical Marijuana Seminar on 09/28/2011. The seminar will cover Business Issues for Caregivers & Medical Marijuana–Related Businesses. You can watch the webcast online from your home or office. for more information Click Here.
Saginaw’s medical marijuana industry progressing slower than in other communities, city attorney says
Gus Burns The Saginaw News
Published: Sunday, September 26, 2010, 4:45 AM Updated: Sunday, September 26, 2010, 10:59 AM
SAGINAW The growth of medical marijuana-related businesses in Saginaw lags behind that of other communities, Saginaw City Attorney Thomas H. Fancher said.
We seem to be little behind the times here, He said. There are about eight different compassion clubs in Ann Arbor.
It’s sort of less open here, maybe, or less active here, even though we were about eight to nine month ahead of the other communities in taking a look at it and trying to get (zoning issues) organized. (more…)
Judge allows medical marijuana defendants’ use
BY BILL LAITNER
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
A district judge in Ferndale said Thursday that he would allow state-approved medical marijuana defendants to keep using the drug while out on bond — a sharp contrast to a Waterford judge’s statement Tuesday that deemed marijuana use by defendants in a parallel case to be a bond violation.
The contrast in treatment for those arrested in metro Detroit’s first major medical marijuana raids showed the breadth of (more…)
Channel 7 Talks to David Gorcyca
WXYZ TV 7′s Val Clark speaks with Flood, Lanctot, Connor, Stablein’s David Gorcyca about medical marijuana case.
Royal Oak Attorney Andy Dragovic Fights For Medical Marijuana Defendants
16 are arraigned in Oakland County pot busts
Charges stem from arrests at three medical marijuana facilities
Jennifer Chambers and Steve Pardo / The Detroit News
The legal face-off over Michigan’s medical marijuana law continued Friday as 16 people arrested during raids of three medical marijuana facilities were arraigned in court.
It took more than an hour to read charges against each of 16 suspects (more…)
Waterford Medical Marijuana Case
Flood Law Attorneys Todd Flood, David Gorcyca, and Paul Stablein argue on behalf of firm clients in Waterford District Court. See the coverage in the Oakland Press.
Story by Carol Hopkins – Oakland Press
Michigan’s medical marijuana law had its first dramatic day in an Oakland County court as a dozen people arrested in a medical marijuana raid on Aug. 25 came before a judge for preliminary exams.
The raids conducted at various growing operations and marijuana dispensaries across the county resulted in the arrests of nearly 20 people who were charged with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver and other felonies. Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said afterward that state lawmakers need to amend the law.
In the packed 51st District courtroom in Waterford Township on Tuesday, Judge Richard Kuhn Jr. listened as two attorneys argued that their clients — medical marijuana patients — should be allowed to smoke marijuana while they are (more…)
Medical Marijuana
STATE OF MICHIGAN
COURT OF APPEALS
(Unpublished Opinion No. 291345)
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Case Summary
The charges against defendant resulted from a search, pursuant to a warrant, of his home and vehicle on December 3, 2007. Police recovered marijuana plants, bags of dried marijuana and assorted drug paraphernalia. Defendant stated to police the marijuana was for medical use. At trial, defendant moved to dismiss the charges based on the Medical Marijuana Act (hereinafter referred to as “MMAâ€), which provides an affirmative defense for a criminal defendant facing marijuana-related charges. The trial court granted the defendant’s motion and plaintiff appealed.
The Michigan Court of Appeals, in an unpublished opinion, reversed and remanded for the reinstatement of the charges against the defendant because the Legislature had not manifested an intent that it apply the new statute retroactively. The MMA statute creates a new right, and it cannot be considered a remedial statute.
Read People v Campbell in full at the Michigan Court of Appeals website.
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