Green Oak Township officials on Wednesday again tabled a 90-day moratorium on the "sale, growth or dispensation" of medical marijuana after about 10 doctor-approved users complained it would encroach on state law.
Specifically, the draft resolution exempts from the moratorium the legal growth of marijuana and permitted services to qualified patients by a caregiver so long as the growth or cultivation of marijuana "or provisions of services to a qualifying patient takes place at the legal residence of the primary caregiver, which residence shall be owned or leased by the primary caregiver."
Legal users as well as some Board of Trustees members said Wednesday the state law doesn't require the marijuana to be grown at a caregiver's home. The township has proposed the temporary moratorium to determine how to
incorporate the law with local zoning rules.
Members of the Brighton Area and Ypsilanti compassion clubs, which host medical marijuana dispensaries, said requiring the marijuana to be grown at a caregiver's home would cut off access to the drug to homebound users.
The Brighton club has 109 members.
JulieAnne Horsfield, a Bay City resident, said the dispensaries work together to make sure homebound users have access to the drug.
"We're aware of what you're trying to do and that you want these businesses to be in certain places. We help to facilitate this with each other," Horsfield said.
Kirk Reid, host of the Ypsilanti Compassion Club and sergeant-at-arms of the Brighton Compassion Club, said any proposed restrictions on the medical marijuana law make him want to burn his card.
Reid said he knows how to obtain the drug illegally without spending hundreds of dollars each year on a state-issued card.
"Nobody will profit off it. No one will know anything, and no one will be able to regulate anything," he said.
Township Supervisor Mark St. Charles said the township isn't trying to interfere with approved use of the drug.
"We are not trying to do anything to interfere with an individual's right to use medical marijuana or interfere with the caregiver. That is not our intent," St. Charles said.
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Specifically, the draft resolution exempts from the moratorium the legal growth of marijuana and permitted services to qualified patients by a caregiver so long as the growth or cultivation of marijuana "or provisions of services to a qualifying patient takes place at the legal residence of the primary caregiver, which residence shall be owned or leased by the primary caregiver."
Legal users as well as some Board of Trustees members said Wednesday the state law doesn't require the marijuana to be grown at a caregiver's home. The township has proposed the temporary moratorium to determine how to
incorporate the law with local zoning rules.
Members of the Brighton Area and Ypsilanti compassion clubs, which host medical marijuana dispensaries, said requiring the marijuana to be grown at a caregiver's home would cut off access to the drug to homebound users.
The Brighton club has 109 members.
JulieAnne Horsfield, a Bay City resident, said the dispensaries work together to make sure homebound users have access to the drug.
"We're aware of what you're trying to do and that you want these businesses to be in certain places. We help to facilitate this with each other," Horsfield said.
Kirk Reid, host of the Ypsilanti Compassion Club and sergeant-at-arms of the Brighton Compassion Club, said any proposed restrictions on the medical marijuana law make him want to burn his card.
Reid said he knows how to obtain the drug illegally without spending hundreds of dollars each year on a state-issued card.
"Nobody will profit off it. No one will know anything, and no one will be able to regulate anything," he said.
Township Supervisor Mark St. Charles said the township isn't trying to interfere with approved use of the drug.
"We are not trying to do anything to interfere with an individual's right to use medical marijuana or interfere with the caregiver. That is not our intent," St. Charles said.
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Source: Livingston Daily.com
Author: Christopher Behnan
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