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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Michigan Supreme Court: 'Inconsistencies' in medical marijuana law still causing 'confusion' 🌿Michigan Supreme Court: 'Inconsistencies' in medical marijuana law still causing 'confusion'
LANSING, MI — The state Supreme Court on Tuesday issued its ninth ruling on the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act in just under seven years, making special note of that frequency while expressing frustration with the ongoing legal debate over the voter-approved law.
"Unlike the procedures for the editing and drafting of bills proposed through the Legislature, the electorate — those who enacted this law at the ballot box — need not review the proposed law for content, meaning, readability, or consistency," Justice James Zahra wrote in the opening paragraph of the unanimous opinion.
A lack of procedural scrutiny can lead to inconsistent or unclear laws that may be difficult to interpret, Zahra continued. The medical marijuana act, which can only be modified by a vote of the people or a three-fourths vote in each chamber in the State Legislature, "is such a law," according to the court.
"The many inconsistencies...
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