SAGINAW TWP. -- Jaime D. Lowell brushed off a biting, cold wind and rain and sleet to protest Attorney General Bill Schuette's crackdown on medical marijuana.

Lowell was one of about 15 people who protested today in front of the Horizons Conference Center, 6200 State, where Schuette's office had educational sessions to educate law enforcement officers and elected leaders on the parameters of medical marijuana.

Lowell, 44, of Metamora, said the attorney general's crackdown has circumvented the intent of the law 63 percent of voters OK'd in 2008.

"Whenever he does something like this, he interferes with someone's health care," Lowell said as he carried a sign that said "fight crime, not sick people" with the words "Stop Schuette Now" in a stop sign.

John F. Roberts, 50, of Saginaw, blamed the death of at least one medical marijuana cancer patient on the loss of access to the drug.

'We'd like to see freedom reign again in this country," he said. "We're not drug dealers."

John Sellek, an attorney general spokesman, said the medical marijuana law was sold to voters to help sick people "but it's been hijacked to make a profit or put public safety at risk."

The education seminar was meant to help law enforcement and protect public safety, he said.