The dispensary tour: These Michigan dispensaries are nondescript, businesslike and law-abiding

[marmar]

from the Detroit Metro Times:



The dispensary tour
These Michigan dispensaries are nondescript, businesslike and law-abiding

By Larry Gabriel
Published: July 25, 2012


Maybe there are marijuana dispensaries where clouds of smoke drift through the air behind beaded curtains as loud music pounds from speakers, dancing girls gyrate and heavy lidded smokers nod while reclining on overstuffed pillows.

Those kinds of places may exist, but I didn't see anything like that when I visited the People's Choice medical marijuana dispensary in Ann Arbor and the Trans Love Compassion Collective in Detroit. They are among the approximately 80 facilities currently operating in Michigan after last year's Court of Appeals decision in a Mount Clemens case prompted many of the nearly 400 outlets then in Michigan to shut down. (Some see a state Supreme Court readiness to hear an appeal of the appeals decision as an indication that the high court has a kinder disposition regarding dispensaries.)

People's Choice is in a nondescript area behind a Chinese restaurant near the intersection of West Liberty and Stadium. There is a growing equipment store next door that seems more flamboyant than the People's Choice. When I knocked a woman who later described herself as the "bulldog at the door" answered and asked if I had a Michigan medical marijuana card. When I didn't produce, I had to cool my heels at the door until the owner Ronald (Harry) Cayce, who was expecting me, came out to vouch for me.

There isn't much to the place and no smoke in the air; the rule is no smoking on the premises. There is a central hallway about 30 feet long with three or four small rooms to either side. Bulldog woman, one of three workers there when I visited, sat in a small office to the right. She checks and verifies the cards of all who enter. ................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://metrotimes.com/mmj/the-dispensary-tour-1.1347747

[PoliticAverse]

1. They're not 'law-abiding' (according to federal law and the DOJ). n/t

[Romulox]

2. Luckily, state authorities have no duty to enforce Federal Law!

Also, Michigan, as a "swing state", seems to have been blissfully free of Eric Holder's storm-trooper routine these past years, even while California, Colorado, and Washington State have been bullied and harassed.

[pipoman]

3. And the DOJ is?

No, they're not..they just have friends in high places rather than high friends..