Detroit Passes Medical Marijuana Bill
Good news for Detroit residents. Marijuana Policy Project reports:
By a 60% to 40% vote, Detroiters passed a ballot initiative yesterday allowing seriously ill patients to use medical marijuana with their doctors' recommendations.
The initiative goes into effect immediately, so Detroit patients -- who yesterday risked arrest and months in jail for medical marijuana possession -- today woke up in a city that no longer subjects them to prosecution.
Detroit is just the first stop. The initiative is being launched in 22 other cities:
Local initiatives have qualified -- or are about to qualify -- for the ballot in 22 locales: Ann Arbor; Berkeley; Oakland; Minneapolis; Tallahassee; three cities in Idaho (Sun Valley, Ketchum, and Hailey); two separate initiatives in Columbia, Missouri; and fully 12 initiatives in Massachusetts. Most are medical marijuana initiatives; the remainder would make marijuana possession the city's lowest law enforcement priority.
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