Medical marijuana caregivers face legal battles
TRAVERSE CITY — A Traverse Narcotics Team search of a burned Garfield Township barn harvested 95 marijuana plants.
Or 75 plants.
A police report generated after the July warrant search yielded both tallies, and the difference could be important if three Garfield Township residents — Fredric John York Sr., 56, Karyn Marie York, 50, and Fredric John York Jr., 27 — try to fight felony manufacture of marijuana charges.
The larger number exceeds the plants the Yorks could grow as cardholders and caregivers under the state's medical marijuana act, according to the report. Grand Traverse County Assistant Prosecutor Christopher Forsyth referred questions about specific numbers to TNT detectives, but said the search reaped enough pot to show the suspects violated the law.
"It's a combination of plants and usable marijuana," he said.
The Michigan Medical Marihuana Act isn't hazy about details. It provides specific protections for patients who have a...
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