MAN SUING OVER POT TO GET ACLU REPRESENTATION

The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan said Thursday that it
would represent John Ter Beek, a state-approved medical-marijuana
user who sued the town of Wyoming in November, saying he feared being
arrested under an ordinance if he grows or uses medical marijuana.

The ACLU filed another lawsuit last week on behalf of a Birmingham
couple who seek to overturn similar ordinances in Livonia, Birmingham
and Bloomfield Hills.

In a related case, Isabella County Chief Circuit Judge Paul
Chamberlain issued an opinion Thursday that "patient-to-patient
transfers and deliveries of marijuana between registered qualifying
patients falls soundly within" the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act.
Such transfers were the basis of charges filed by Oakland County
authorities in September against operators of medical-marijuana
establishments.