A new Michigan-based, national coalition of medical marijuana advocates is coming together to defend the rights of patients and dispensaries.
The National Patients Rights Association (NPRA) will lobby legislators, prosecutors and local governments to uphold medical marijuana laws in 16 states and Washington, D.C.
Michigan voters legalized the use of cannabis for medical purposes in 2008 with the passage of the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act. There are now more than 100,000 registered patients in the state.
Although there have been legal challenges to the use of medicinal marijuana since California first legalized its use in 1996, opposition in Michigan has been especially strong under the state's current attorney general, Bill Schuette.
Again, we have legislature at odds with facts. Right now, marijuana is classified as being incredibly harmful (not so) with no medical benefits (not so). These things are known, and anyone who knows a pothead and a drunk can tell you there is no question which is more dangerous.
But we're not talking about recreational use, we're talking about relieving the pain and suffering of people who are facing life-threatening illness or death. Just like those who can't separate "those sluts getting abortions" from women who face death from danger of pregnancy or the horror of rape, the ignorance of the voting majority may cripple common sense.
Medical rights trump personal beliefs. Every time.
It's too bad the wrong people pay the price for their stupidity.
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