Warning! Warning! Warning!
Corporate marijuana interests are working very hard to rewrite our voter enacted Marijuana laws in Lansing Michigan. If House bills 5300-5302 become law, it will be another reminder of how the emergency manager law was reinstated after people soundly rejected it at the ballot box. The Michigan legislature upon it’s own motion will remove 11 plants and 4 patients from caregivers after the voters chose to have 12 plants and 5 patients to provide caregiver services to. Additionally, the rewrite will create a new felony charges, increase fines and, incarceration of our citizens violators of the new law if approved. The bills are being fast tracked by interests who want to monopolize the Marijuana Industry in Michigan by March 22, 2022.
On Tuesday October 26, 2021 the regulatory reform committee approved these bills for a full vote by the entire 110 member Michigan House of Representatives. The plan is to have these laws passed by the House of Representatives by November 5th, 2021 with minimal input from citizen caregivers.
This attempt by Michigan Legislators goes against everything the late Representative Isaac Robinson fought against because of the increased civil penalties, fines and, imprisonment for possession of marijuana. Any representative voting YES for these bills will help increase operational costs in the District Courts, Department of Corrections and, county jails.
This is a glaring example of legislative voter fraud because the current law was approved by 63% of the citizens with their vote in 2008. The voters decided that they wanted 12 plants and 5 patient caregivers and, if a law needs to be changed, it should be done by the voters not the politicians. This effort to disenfranchise the voters by changing the law in the middle of the night, combined with the enactment of voter suppression laws leads to citizen mistrust of government
There are a lot of real pressing problems in the State that need to be fast tracked into law like illegal dumping, infrastructure repair, education reform, and removing the taxes from retiree pensions for example. The same people who want a picture ID to vote will not force the Department of Licensing and Regulation, Marijuana Regulatory Agency to reprint all patient and caregiver cards with their picture on it. It is the law that your driver’s license picture should be on all Michigan issued patient/caregiver Marijuana cards.
If you want to stop this behind the back door plan to change voter enacted laws by special interest groups, I strongly encourage you to call, email, write and, visit in person any State Representative and Senator to vote NO, NO and, NO on House bills 5300, 5301 and, 5302 when they come up for a vote.
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| State Rep. Stephane Young(D) Detroit (517) 373-3815 stephanieyoung@house.mi.gov |
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