News » Hundreds Protest Medical Marijuana Arrests in Detroit





On August 25, sixteen people in Oakland County (Detroit, Michigan) were arrested and charged with violating the Michigan medical marijuana law in the now-famous “Cheech and Chong” raids of two dispensaries and several people’s homes.

The protesters outside the court were there in support of the defendants, ten of whom were being given court dates for further prosecution. Dates were set for November 4, just after elections.

The case could be pivotal as current Michigan law is at stake. Officers claim they were able to purchase from the dispensaries without a medical marijuana card, but one of the defendants, the doorman at one of the establishments, refutes that. He says that the officers used false IDs to gain access as he specifically turned away at least one of them for not having proper medical ID. His job was to screen people coming into the dispensary to be sure they had a right to be there. He was working as a volunteer after having received a DUI charge for driving under the influence of pain medications following a knee surgery.

During the raids, Sheriff’s Deputies from the Narcotics Enforcement Team seized various quantities of marijuana (in different forms), patient records, and other items.

[source Detroit News]

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