Mich. Voters Decide On Medical Marijuana
October 4, 2008
Associated Press
DETROIT — Michigan may become the latest state to let some severely ill patients use marijuana to treat pain, nausea and other symptoms.
If the November ballot proposal is approved, Michigan law would allow doctors to recommend marijuana for patients with cancer, glaucoma, HIV, AIDS and other conditions the state agrees are covered under the law.
Those patients would register with the state and could legally buy, grow and use small amounts of marijuana to relieve pain, nausea, appetite loss and other symptoms.
Similar medical-marijuana laws have been enacted in a dozen states in recent years, most by ballot initiative.
The measure would remove state-level penalties for registered patients using marijuana. But it wouldn't create legal dispensaries for the drug. It also wouldn't affect the federal ban on marijuana. | 
