Welcome to the Growery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!
|
 SpaceMonkey
Mind Pilot
Registered: 02/09/09
Posts: 3,471
Loc: Hawaiian Islands 
Last seen: 3 years, 7 months
|
 Michigan Driver Who Uses MMJ Wins Appeal 
#672983 - 05/29/13 02:48 PM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
The Michigan Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that medical marijuana users aren’t automatically breaking the law if they’re caught driving after using the drug.
The court unanimously overturned an appeals court decision in the case of a Grand Traverse County man, Rodney Koon. He was stopped in 2010 for speeding — going nearly 30 mph over the limit. Koon admitted having smoked medical marijuana earlier, and a blood test revealed the drug in his system.
It’s illegal for Michigan drivers to consume marijuana. But the state high court said medical marijuana users have some protection. The court says police must show that a driver actually was “under the influence” of marijuana for a charge to stick.
Michigan voters approved medical use of marijuana in 2008.
The medical marijuana law “shields registered patients from prosecution for the internal possession of marijuana,” the judges said.
At the same time, the law prohibits driving “while under the influence of marijuana.” But it fails to specify what level of marijuana in the body constitutes being “under the influence,” the opinion said.
The court suggested lawmakers consider setting a marijuana limit, similar to a blood alcohol level.
“It goes almost without saying that the (medical marijuana law) is an imperfect statute, the interpretation of which has repeatedly required this Court’s intervention,” the justices said. “Indeed, this case could have been easily resolved if the (law) had provided a definition of ‘under the influence.’”
Ruling: http://drugsense.org/url/9bqm5UTK
Source: Associated Press (Wire)
Published: May 22, 2013
Copyright: 2013 The Associated Press
--------------------
  Don't Mistake My Kindness For Weakness
| |
|
|
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: geokills
733 topic views. 0 members, 2 guests and 7 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ] | | |
|
|
Threaded
Previous
Index
Next
Edit 
Reply 
