Turning purposeful ignorance into a newspaper story. Add an unrelated photo. It looks like this...

[Bozita]

Michigan voters approved a medical marijuana ballot measure last November. It takes effect on April 4. It makes no provision for the distribution of med-mar. None.

Now along comes the city attorney for Clio, Michigan, a metropolis of 2.500 north of Flint.

I can't figure out which is worse, the journalism or the mind-numbingly ignorant, publicity-seeking city attorney.



link to article: http://www.mlive.com/clio/index.ssf/2009/03/clio_city_attorney_otis_stout.html#more

Clio City Attorney, Otis Stout, proposes medical pot-stopping ordinance

Posted by Jared Field | The Clio Messenger March 20, 2009 10:47AM



CLIO, Michigan -- Medical marijuana users may be officially smoked out of the city of Clio in the coming weeks.
Otis Stout, Clio city attorney, proposed a new ordinance at the meeting of the Clio Commission on Monday night aimed at preventing medical marijuana dispensaries from taking root in the city.

Stout recommended that the Clio Commission forward the proposed ordinance to the Planning Commission to decide whether a new ordinance, similar to the one authored to keep sexually-oriented businesses out of downtown Clio five years ago, should be codified.

Stout suggested that the commission address the city code's lack of general licensing requirements for businesses.

If adopted, the first licensing standard in the code would describe an "unlawful business" as one that is illegal under the Clio Code of Ordinances, the laws of the state of Michigan or the laws of the United States of America.

Such a licensing standard would give the city the ability to effectively zone out medical marijuana dispensaries that will, by most accounts, crop up in Michigan after April 4, the day when the state of Michigan begins registering qualifying patients to use the drug legally.

The use of medical marijuana is now legal in Michigan, but the new law is not congruent with the federal statutes banning the use of the drug.


Now take a look at the photo located in the article:


File photo
The Clio Commission, at the behest of City Attorney Otis Stout and Police Chief James McLellan, are considering a proposed ordinance to combat medical marijuana dispensaries similar to the one in 2004 that effectively zoned out sexually-oriented businesses in downtown Clio. In 2004, numerous residents picketed outside the site of a new coffee topless shop on Vienna Street. The Commission hopes to prevent a future dustup downtown.

[spin]

1. Well if you can have a topless coffee shop...

you should be able to get medical marijuana.

[DCKit]

2. Gawd, the liability issues of a topless coffee shop.... n/t