MCL 333.7411 is a law was proposed to allow judges to use their discretion to provide a non-criminal sanction for first-time offenders who commit less serious drug crimes. People v Ware, 239 Mich App 437, 441, 608 NW2d 94 (2000). It is a law that can be used as a get out of jail free card for a person charged with certain drug offenses. If the candidate is eligible for application of the law to their case, under certain circumstances, the person can be discharged from probation and their case can be dismissed without a conviction entered on their criminal record.
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The Michigan Medical Marihuana Act became effective December 4, 2008. On that date, the people of the State of Michigan found and declared, based in part upon the finding of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine March 1999 report, that there are beneficial uses for marihuana in treating or alleviating the pain, nausea, and other symptoms associated with a variety of debilitating medical conditions. Since approximately 99 out of every 100 marihuana arrests in the United States are made under state law, rather than under federal law, changing state law would protect from arrest the vast majority of seriously ill people who have a medical need to use marihuana. Even though federal law prohibits any use of marihuana except under very limited circumstances, states are not required to prosecute people for engaging in activities prohibited by federal law. for the health and welfare of its citizens, Michigan joins Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Washington as states which do not penalize the medical use and cultivation of marihuana.
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Michigan law codifies the crime of disorderly conduct at MCL 750.167. The law reaches persons who neglect their family, prostitutes, peeping toms, persons who illegally run a business, and those who are drunk, indecent or obscene, vagrants, beggars and loiterers. There are also sections of the law that apply to persons hunting while intoxicated and those who are disorderly where there is a funeral service.
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