Two days after the Ferndale City Council voted to lift a moratorium on medical marijuana businesses, authorities on Wednesday evening raided the city's only existing pot dispensary.

local police officers and the Oakland County Sheriff's Office Narcotics Team raided the Clinical Relief medical marijuana clinic on Hilton Road. Police tell the newspaper they also raided Everybody's Cafe in Waterford Township and private residences in Oakland and Macomb counties.

Authorities say at least 15 people were arrested in the raids on allegations the clinics were violating Michigan's medical marijuana law, as approved by voters in 2008.

"They took medical records, they violated patients' rights," Clinical Relief co-owner Nick Agro

this morning. "It's very clear in the state statute that no patient or care-giver is to be arrested. Every individual that was in that place (the clinic) was either a patient or a care-giver, and Oakland County has taken charge and arrested those individuals."

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Ferndale City Council on Monday

by allowing medical marijuana-related business owners to apply for special land use permits in light industrial, heavy industrial and -- provided less than 20 percent of their space is use for growing -- office districts.

, which opened in June, operates outside the newly-approved zoning areas but was grandfathered in to allow it to remain at its current location. Ferndale police previously toured the facility and deemed it legal.

Mayor Craig Covey joined reporters at the clinic earlier this summer, discussing how medical marijuana-friendly policies could help suffering patients while attracting new businesses to the city.

"Some people seem to be freaked out about this subject,"

"We seem to have gotten overly dramatic about this issue, but we’re not the first city to have one of these facilities and there are others that I know of in Oak Park, Southfield, Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor."

Co-owner Ryan Richmond, a real estate investor from Royal Oak, told the newspaper in June that Clinical Relief obtains marijuana from registered caregivers and does not grow or allow smoking on the premises.

"Most medical marijuana patients don’t have a source they can go to consistently," he said. "Once patients have a state-issued ID card they are welcome to come to our clinic."

Update:

The Michigan Attorney General's Office says it was not involved in the raids.