Clarkston Cares 2022 Wins Appeal
by Ben Horner
A three-judge panel from the Michigan Court of Appeals unanimously upheld the Oakland County Circuit decision to allow the question on medicinal marijuana to be on the ballot for the Village of Clarkston in November.
Advocate Clarkston Cares 2022 had gone through the necessary steps to get the question to amend the city charter to authorize and regulate marijuana “provisioning centers” on the ballot. Upon getting the wording approved, Clarkston Cares 2022 canvassed the city to attain the needed petition signatures.
Having turned in the signatures forty-five days prior to the deadline, the petition was in the hands of the village clerk, Jennifer Speagle, to certify the signatures. Speagle argued that she was not given enough time to do the necessary steps to certify the signatures, among other steps that end at the governor’s desk for final approval, to get the question on the November ballot.
Clarkston Cares 2022 responded to her argument stating that forty-five days gave Speagle enough time, and the county clerk simply chose to purposely procrastinate to keep the question off the ballot.
With the unanimous decision, the order takes immediate effect, thus allowing the people of Clarkston to vote in November on whether they will allow medical marijuana provisioning centers in their community.
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