Medical Marijuana Causes Confusion in Michigan

LANSING, Mich. (AP) – Michigan’s two-year-old law allowing the use of marijuana for medical purposes continues to cause confusion in communities across the state. Local governments in many areas are passing their own ordinances, some trying to ban or regulate a wave of businesses popping up to grow and sell the drug. Many of the clashes are between medical marijuana advocates who say they’re acting within the law and police who say they aren’t. Some medical marijuana users and providers have been arrested in raids around the state. Courts face a rash of medical marijuana cases and their rulings eventually might help clarify the law. State lawmakers also likely will address the statute next year. Michigan isn’t alone in trying to sort out hazy medical marijuana laws. Fourteen other states, including Colorado, have similar statutes.