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No stems, no seeds, no sticks... some of that real sticky-icky-ickyBy Nick, Section News
Cosmic karma and a comeuppance twenty-six years in the making? I don't know. Take the news that Jay Cutler is likely forcing a trade with the fact that my blackberry just died and that today we all have to put up with incessant shouts of APRIL FOOLS DAY and a guy could be forgiven for thinking the universe was out to play its own little practical joke.
Mix it all together and I don't know WHAT you've got, but I know that I'VE got a pounding headache. Darn it all if it didn't arrive a few days early, too. If today were Saturday maybe I could have used my frustration as a crutch, toddled on down to one state office or another and picked up an ID to grow my own marijuana. OK, so I'm not going to toke, myself, but its awfully reassuring to know the neighbors down the block can. We think. (If its legal, that should cut down on the police patrols on my street.) See, the ballot proposal approved last fall by Michigan voters wasn't particularly clear about, well, anything. The Detroit News reports that health and law enforcement officials are sort of... hazy... (RIMSHOT) on the law's implications. Here is what we know:
Step one: issuing picture ID cards for those on the marijuana registry; they should begin arriving by the end of April. The cards cost $100 each and will allow patients to legally possess 2.5 ounces of marijuana or grow 12 marijuana plants in a locked, enclosed area. Confusion over the details has already started to manifest itself in metro Detroit, though, where Madison Heights police raided a man's home and confiscated twenty-one of his plants. Sure, technically you're only supposed to have twelve of them, but, and I'm going out on a limb here, I find it entirely plausible that the poor guy simply inverted the number while he was planting the stuff, surrounded by a thick green fog. And I'm guessing it was some potent tree. Even the police who coordinated the drug raid seem confused and disoriented well after the fact, tell-tale signs of exposure to the leaf. The Ivory Tower:
"We don't know what the rules are," Madison Heights Police Chief Kevin Sagan said. "This is a new situation for all of us." Don't feel bad, Chief. Seems to be going around. Its only been five months since the law was approved by voters. I'm no expert but, frankly, I think the mark of any good marijuana-related ballot proposal is whether or not it can confuse everybody in a three-hundred mile radius for half a year after the fact. Not like anyone ever argued that sticky promoted rational thought. Now what did I do with that Pac CD...
No stems, no seeds, no sticks... some of that real sticky-icky-icky | 8 comments (8 topical, 0 hidden)
No stems, no seeds, no sticks... some of that real sticky-icky-icky | 8 comments (8 topical, 0 hidden)
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