Make it Your Duty, to Recall Bill Schuette.

[Sweater Cows!]

A recall petition is circulating. here is a link to the Facebook group for the recall.

Recall Bill Shuette FB group For those interested in circulating petitions the instructions and links to the pdf's are on the right side of the page under Doc's

 

MLive article about Shuette Recall

 

"MIDLAND -- A medical marijuana advocate has won on his third try the right to circulate recall petitions against Attorney General Bill Schuette.

The Midland County Election Commission voted 3-0 today that the latest petition, which targets Schuette's stand on the state's medical marijuana law, was written clearly for voters to understand. Schuette is a Midland Republican." from Mlive, follow above link for entire story

[Willy]

What reasons are given for the recall? I didn't see any in the news story.

[Sweater Cows!]

The wording on the petition is one thing. But there is a hell of a lot more reasons, things he's said or done that can be found, rather than typing it all out myself if you are interest google it and the MMJ forums around the web has plenty of complaints.

There reasons on the recall petition are:

Opinion 7259 

In opinion 7259 he stated that a EACH patients plants have to be in a 'separate locked facility' Therefore if caregiver has 5 patients  then all five patients plants can't be grown together in that same grow room. husband and wife could n't even grow there stuff in same room. That creates a huge expense for people.

 

The second reason from the petition is that he is okay with turning private health records over to the feds.

 

Here's a direct link to the petition to read the wording Recall Petition

[XLFD]

In Mr. Schuette's defense, I think that's a pretty flimsy reason to recall him.  The opinion doesn't change the law, and it doesn't seem to fly directly against the law's intent.

[Willy]

I read 7259 and it only states his opinion of what the law says. I think it was a clear and concisely written opinion. That's what he is paid to do. I'm sure he was asked to write the opinion because of all the marijuana shops that are springing up all over the place. The laws intent was to make the use of and cultivation of medical marijuana available to ill individuals but people have been taking advantage of the situation. On a 2 mile stretch of  Michigan Ave in Lansing there are 6 marijuana shops, one of which was busted for selling other illegals drugs. If it wasn't for this proliferation of marijuana shops this would not be an issue. This petition is someones idea to try and kill the messenger.

[Marty Redman]

Does anyone know how former Mich. AG Mike Cox handled the Marijuana law with his opinions?  I started reading through the opinion shown and said 'Oh, oh, lawspeak'.  Kind of what happens when I read XLFD's posts on my first glance through.  We're close to having MM pushed through here in Illinois, but I wish the people in Washington would do a pass on their non-constitutional power of regulating weed so its not so complex of an issue if we do. 

[Sweater Cows!]

The "lawspeak' is the problem. Although i agree that the co-ops and such weren't intended of having 20 or so caregivers rent a warehouse to house all the plants together, I disagree with Shuettes opinion that the "common understanding the voter' would have by reading the language would make the voters say that a husband and wife could not grow there marijuana in one "enclosed locked facility" and that they had to have two separate facilities.

I believe the common voter reading the language of the law would not get the same opinion as Shuette, mainly because the voter is not going to take  the words or a letter 'a' and make something so specific of it, that is what lawyers do, not us commoners.

 

I believe the common person would assume the language meant that each licensed patient in a residence can have twelve plants, but not that they have to all grow them in a separate 'enclosed locked facility', I think the  voter would assume that the plants themselves must be in a 'locked' up, but not the way shuette makes it sound. Same for the caregiver, I don't believe the common voter would expect due to the letter "a" in the law sentence that the caregiver has to separate each patients plants, only that the caregiver can only have  12 plants for each patient and that they must be locked up.

 

Why, would the voter expect each to separated? I don't believe they would expect that. The voter I believe has enough financial sense to know that the expense of growing the plants would make it cost prohibitive for the   caregiver to be able to provide cost effective medicine to any of the patients if each patients plants had to be in their own grow room.

 

The problem here is Shuette's opinion is that of a lawyer, not a common person.

 

Example: read the last sentence above

^^ See where I said "a lawyer" above? Do you think I meant only one lawyer, of course not, by my saying

"Shuette's opinion is that of a lawyer", it means ALL lawyers, any lawyer you would ask, lawyers as a group would think that way, not anyone lawyer.

 

That is because that is how we speak, we are normal. (again here I use the word 'we', I bet people don't think I mean only we here at the site, I believe they assume I mean all of us english speakers as a whole.

 

I don't think the common voter when voting yes for the law ever considered that each patient had to have their own room and could not share a room with another. They only understood 12 plants per patient and 5 patients per caregiver.

 

The grower(caregiver) in the marijuana industry understand that they can have there own plus five patients plants in one 'enclosed locked facility', they understand it this way because federal law prohibits more than 100 plants and the caregivers don't want to go over that limit and have intrusion from the feds.

 

Of course Shuette supports the bill that wants all growing done in only 10 approved facilities in the state right? yet I bet he does not expect such a 'factory' to have numerous little rooms for each patient, he in the case of his corporate donors running a huge profitable grow operation would have no problem having all those plants in one big room, and i bet he would think it appalling that anyone would expect them all to be separated in groups of twelve in there own little room.