Senator Works to Change State Marijuana Laws - WLNS TV 6 Lansing - Jackson | Your Local News Leader

A local state senator believes Michigan voters should have another chance to decide on the medical marijuana issue.

Senator Rick Jones says that if it got on the ballot this time, the voters would turn it down.

"Perhaps it would be best to put it back on the ballot and let the people decide and it would have overwhelming support to change the law back," said Bill Clement with Lansing Chapter "NORML." 

 As the Michigan Senate prepares to debate changes to the current medical marijuana law, approved by over 60 percent of the voters, Senator Jones is thinking that does not go far enough and after the election, he may asked his colleagues for a re-do.

"I think that the results were bad enough that most of my constituents said we never expected this. 130,000 cards! We though there would be a few. We never knew this would be wide open literally with teen agers buying marijuana," said Senator Jones of Grand Ledge.

Clement believes this is an effort to "go against the will of the people." He believes if the voters had another shot, they would go a step further and legalize industrial hemp.

"I think the rule change is an attempt to stop or slow down the program," said Clement. "If the voters had another shot they would vote for industrial hemp to expand it."

Meanwhile on another front, the marijuana lobby will launch an effort to recall the GOP State Attorney General Bill Schuette who has fought the medical marijuana law.

"Bill Schuettee is not doing his duty," said Clement.