A group of cannabis advocates is suing the state to get it to remove marijuana from the state’s list of controlled substances in its Public Health Code--a move advocates say would bring an end to police raids.
Despite the passage of the adult-use marijuana law in Michigan in 2018, two laws legalizing medical marijuana and the addition of bureaucracy and state taxes on marijuana sales, the state’s Public Health Code treats marijuana like opioids, heroin, codeine, peyote and mushrooms.
“For 80 years they’ve been locking people up and taking their possessions and harassing and terrorizing us as citizens because we like to smoke weed,” said poet and activist John Sinclair Wednesday at the Cannabis Counsel office in Detroit. “I want to be part of every effort to completely remove the police from our lives regarding to marijuana. They’ve got nothing at all to do with marijuana.”
