Marquette MI to have hearing for decriminalization and dispensaries

Don't know how to quote outside sources, but was from a fb event invite from UPcaregivers:

TimeMonday, January 24 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location300 West Baraga Avenue, Marquette, MI 49855-4712 Created ByUPCareGivers
More Infohttp://upcaregivers.com/greenpages/events/mqt-commission-meeting-about-marijuana/

On Monday, January 24th, the Marquette City Commission is holding a Special Meeting in Commission Chambers at the Marquette City Hall. The meeting begins at 6:00 pm (EST).

At this meeting, the Commission is set to take up two important topics of discussion.
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1.) Proposal to decriminalize marijuana (Cannabis) possession in the city of Marquette.

2.) What to do, if anything, about Medicinal Cannabis Dispensaries within the city of Marquette.

This meeting is a pivital point for Medicinal Cannabis in Marquette County as well as throughout the entire UP.

There will be time for the public to address the Commissioners and make their opinion known...

Regardless if you are Pro Medicinal Cannabis in the UP or against, we NEED you to attend because your contribution is necessary and highly valued.

Sign for the event now - "Click Attending"

For further information and to get directions to this event, just click the link below:

http://upcaregivers.com/greenpages/events/mqt-commission-meeting-about-marijuana/






I can't go because of class. I am seriously considering skipping, but I'm not sure how important what we are doing tomorrow is for class.

thanks for the info. do you think good will come of this meeting, how do city officials view medical marijuana up there?

I really hope good will come of it!. I honestly have no idea about there views, until medical mj, we had some of the meanest drug cops I ever heard of. The fact the meeting is happening though means they cant be 100% against it.

wont matter much if the state bans it, giving the state police the ability to raid whenever:

https://www.rollitup.org/michigan-patients/403052-michigan-senate-bill-17-banning.html

new senate bill, please inform your senator to vote no. every little email, or letter counts!

Never thought I'd live to see the day that the Yooper's would allow this. Hope it happens.

Things will come around as they should.


How ya been Winter?

I've been smokin for a long time and I'm hoping to out live these anti-MMJ people. The new legislators don't understand the 'Tea Party' people aren't into the far right either. It's a leave us alone and let us be and make government smaller people that put them where they are. At least, I think so.

I've been just peachy and you?

ozzrokk said:

Things will come around as they should.


How ya been Winter?

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So did anyone attend this one or know anything further

i dont liek dispensaries. they're way too expensive. im a free* caregiver. my patients just pitch in evenly with me on electricity and the more expensive equipment. everything is distributed evenly and is free besides the very small monthly bill. i do the work for free because it's a hobby to me and i love it! more people should do this. it costs me a lot of extra money to get started which i payed for all myself. but this is my passion and my patients and i are more than happy.

So did anyone attend this one or know anything further

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I wasnt able to attend but here's the news story.
http://www.uppermichiganssource.com/news/story.aspx?id=571827

Thanks Yoop

I attended!

It was really more about pin pointing the major grey areas and what a dispensary is. They seem to think its someone with patients. Nobody corrected them, but a lot of people stood up and spoke.

Mostly they were like "we arnt sure we can do that?" and then people were like "you totally can".

Nothing really got done, but they did assure us that there would be more and they were visably moved, many of them and seemed more open than at first. They were openly laughing at the idea of legalization, some of them. The mayor temp or next mayor or whatever, depetro seemed to really be the only one in the seats up there pulling for it. The others seemed uninterested or totally against it. By the end, only the guy who showed up late (and im pretty sure hungover, what a dbag "mary janes bad, but im gonna show up to a meeting about it hungover") st onge is his name, seemed compeltely against it. Well the police chief seemed against it also.

Lots of people spoke and said some intense things, that I wouldnt have had the balls to say. One person was balls out like "me and my husband have max patients" i.e. they have like 120 or so plants! Right in front of the police chief. Balls out.

Anyway, it sounded good at the end, started rocky, but when the people started talking (even a legit lawyer came in support and tore them a new one) it changed gears and many of them were visibly moved. I would say chalk it up to pro politicians, but after watching them blow any way to claim they were indifferent about it the second it came up (i actually took my time to speak to be like "this is terrible if the people who are supposed to represent us openly laugh about it, its obvious which sides you are one") and started laughing.

Anyway, im excited to see more of it and pissed at sooooo many people. It's amazing how many people are activist until they have to show up for a meeting.

Way to show up and report for outta-towners...

Marquette, as a whole, could really benefit from the commerce that a few patient-safe dispensaries could offer. Patients would drive from other regions and shop at many local businesses. People who prefer to smoke medical cannabis are generally more intelligent and, perhaps, have sufficient funds to do their part to help support the local economy.

Sorry, my reports a little sparse, I'm not really good at that type of thing.

I definitely agree and it was a big thing touched on, but the chief of police said something along the lines of "I have read documented evidence that crime in areas with dispensaries increases" and they were all like "gasp!". They dont even have a real grasp on what a dispensary would be.