State Will Turn Over Medical Pot Records If Ordered By Fed Court

[Jim Finnel]

Attorney General Bill Schuette told a federal court in Grand Rapids that the Michigan Department of Community Health will turn over records of medical marijuana users and caregivers in a Drug Enforcement Agency probe, but only if the court orders the department to do so.

Schuette actively campaigned in opposition to the 2008 law.

The DEA in June served a subpoena on the MDCH seeking all records related to seven medical marijuana patients and/or caregivers. The names of the targets in the investigation have been redacted from court filings. The state has thus far declined to fulfill the court order, citing a confidentiality clause in the medical marijuana law. That law was passed in 2008 by state voters.

But now Schuette says that if a federal judge orders the department to release the documents under the U.S. Constitution’s supremacy clause, the state will comply.

The investigation is targeting seven people who live in the Lansing area. It has been rumored that the targets of the DEA probe were also the targets of a DEA raid Nov. 30, in which the federal agency raided a warehouse in Okemos that a group of medical marijuana caregivers had rented to grow the plants. That raid has raised questions because two Michigan National Guard Blackhawk attack helicopters were used in a support role in the raid.


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[DeluxHD]

I understand Michigan looking out for themselves but for people who are following state law I see no reason for us to be harrassed

 

[free2blaze]

Attorney General Bill Schuette needs to lose his job, if the state department turns this information over they will be sued, they will be violating state law.