Hard to ignore a press release with this headline: "Brighton High School Senior Excluded From Prom Because Her Date 'Smelled Like Medical Marijuana.'"

According to the release, the incident in question involved Brighton High senior Sarah Heideman, who wasn't allowed to go to prom because her date, Jason Schweinsberg, allegedly had a whiff of weed about him. Both he and Heideman deny having toked prior to the event, although Schweinsberg is a medical-marijuana patient with a state-issued card. The expulsion made Heideman mad -- hire-a-lawyer mad. Hence a press conference scheduled for 12:30 p.m. today, at which attorney Robert Corry will excoriate the authorities involved for turning "what should have been a treasured memory of Sarah's youth" into "a nightmare because of the current insanity of the War on Drugs."

Get the rest of the details after the jump.