CLARIFY POT LAW

Hundreds of chanting protesters turned up outside a Waterford district
court building to chant against legal proceedings against 10 of 16
people who were arrested on Aug. 25 in a series of raids on marijuana
users claiming protection under the state's medical marijuana law.

The local courts will have to sort out the validity of the charges
against the defendants, but state lawmakers should heed the words of
Michigan Court of Appeals Judge Peter O'Connell, who upheld charges
against two Madison Heights marijuana defendants in an earlier case.
Nevertheless, in the course of his ruling, O'Connell called the
medical marijuana law confusing and badly drafted and called for
clarification of the law on medical marijuana use, noting that the law
conflicts with sections of the state Public Health Code. People have a
right to have their rights and responsibilities clearly spelled out,
and confusion still abounds in this area of the law.