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It's official: A question on medical marijuana use will be put before Ann Arbor voters this November.
Final ballot language has not yet been approved, said Ron Olson, acting city clerk, but the petition with 7,000 signatures was certified by the city clerk's office on June 11. City council is scheduled to sign off on the ballot language during its first regular meeting in July.
"We're very pleased with this and looking forward to a very successful outcome," said Charles Ream, a Scio Township trustee who spearheaded the initiative to collect signatures.
The question would ask voters to amend the city charter, adding language to allow people who use marijuana for medicinal purposes to avoid prosecution.
Ream, chairman of the Washtenaw Coalition for Compassionate Care, said medical marijuana advocates were considering a state petition drive in order to put the question before all Michigan voters as early as 2006. Ream added that he hoped federal marijuana laws would change by then instead, however.
The coalition, which also goes by Medical Marijuana in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and Saline, is loosely affiliated with the Detroit Coalition for Compassionate Care, which got a medical marijuana question placed on the August ballot in the city of Detroit.
Source: Ann Arbor News (MI)
Author: Tracy Davis, News Staff Reporter
Published: Saturday, 19, 2004
Copyright: 2004 The Ann Arbor News
Contact: letters@annarbornews.com
Website: Ann Arbor, Michigan Local News, Breaking News, Sports & Weather - MLive.com
Final ballot language has not yet been approved, said Ron Olson, acting city clerk, but the petition with 7,000 signatures was certified by the city clerk's office on June 11. City council is scheduled to sign off on the ballot language during its first regular meeting in July.
"We're very pleased with this and looking forward to a very successful outcome," said Charles Ream, a Scio Township trustee who spearheaded the initiative to collect signatures.
The question would ask voters to amend the city charter, adding language to allow people who use marijuana for medicinal purposes to avoid prosecution.
Ream, chairman of the Washtenaw Coalition for Compassionate Care, said medical marijuana advocates were considering a state petition drive in order to put the question before all Michigan voters as early as 2006. Ream added that he hoped federal marijuana laws would change by then instead, however.
The coalition, which also goes by Medical Marijuana in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and Saline, is loosely affiliated with the Detroit Coalition for Compassionate Care, which got a medical marijuana question placed on the August ballot in the city of Detroit.
Source: Ann Arbor News (MI)
Author: Tracy Davis, News Staff Reporter
Published: Saturday, 19, 2004
Copyright: 2004 The Ann Arbor News
Contact: letters@annarbornews.com
Website: Ann Arbor, Michigan Local News, Breaking News, Sports & Weather - MLive.com
