Federal Judge Orders Michigan to Supply DEA With Medical Marijuana Records
U.S. District Magistrate Judge Hugh Brenneman Jr. in Michigan has ordered the state to turn over medical marijuana records to the DEA for its use in a federal criminal investigation.
The DEA had issued administrative subpoenas to the Michigan Board of Community Health.
[H]e said that “while the Michigan Legislature declared its intent not to penalize the medical use of marijuana under state law, it had to acknowledge its action did not alter the existing federal prohibition against marijuana....The use of marijuana remains a federal felony.”
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