Thanks
We're ok on the $
I have been thinking of the issue of the $
Is it ok to make a profit and
What your student said about it looks like a business
As we know from other states the real key to hooking support is the tax benefits
Local govts always lead in this
It is easy to paint the pic of the contrast between what happens without places like the clinic
And what happens with them
Drug dealer with guns and other bad stuff
V
Good neighbor local business trusted by govt officials
Paying taxes
And paying employees who pay taxes
Which do we prefer?
That is the Q
Ferndale didn't call Cooper and Bouchard in
They nosed in on their own
For their own reasons
If they had asked the folks who gave the clinic their certain of occupancy
Or the mayor
Or fire chief
Or city council
Or the dept of community health folks who reviewed the mmj applications for pts who saw the clinic docs
Everyone would have told Cooper and Bouchard
This is a good neighbor biz
Trusted and taxpaying
Go find the bad guy street drug dealers and leave these guys alone!
So work with this:
This biz opens up
Gets permits
Has the mayor, city council, and fir chief in
Visiting and using the publicity
As positive about Ferndale
They have books like any other business
Operate in the open like any other biz
Pay biz and income taxes like any other biz
Operate like the other businesses
Licensed and welcomed by the city officials
Have security and carefully check the people they deal with using the tools available to them
Now prosecutor Cooper and sheriff Bouchard
Have made their own decision about this business
They have decided if they call it a drug operation
If they lie and cheat
to get in
and to make Purchases and sales of medicine
If they send in masked troops armed with automatic weapons
They can get some of their own publicity
And make over the law
Instead of doing the will of the citizenry they are supposed to serve
Would we rather have
Mmj patients
Going out on the street?
Buying from dealers who have weapons, crack and meth too?
Having all of the money earned by the dealers and their employees
Stay in the black market?
No taxes paid?
No good licensed trusted citizens to transact with?
Should the guy like Ryan
Who now works there
Still be getting unemployment?
Unable to work?
Unable to pay his medical insurance?
Unable to get mmj except for an illegal sale with a street dealer?
Or would we rather have him as he is now?
( or was until Cooper and Bouchard stepped in to 'help')
Employed
Paying taxes
Paying for his own health insurance and medicines
at rite aid and at the clinic
Working for a business that is not in back rooms
On the street
Underground
Where, when the mayor or fire chief or city council comes by
They all smile and shake hands
And enjoy each other as good citizens of Ferndale
Which do we want?
Ferndale and the state of Michigan have declared this biz and these caregivers
As trusted citizens
Just like the guy with the liquor
And they did not betray that trust
They followed the law
They required mmj cards
And required id
They kept business books and records
They paid taxes
Their employees paid taxes
And nobody was having to interact with the
Violent criminal drug dealer on the street
Who is also pushing crack and meth and pills
That is who we want Cooper and Bouchard to go after!
It is Cooper and Bouchard who have betrayed the trust of the people
Instead of going after the bad guys
They decide to try and make
These good citizens look like bad guys
Because they don't like the mmj law
They are the ones who forged documents
They are the ones who lied
They are the ones who bought and sold illegally
They are the ones who acted like the thug drug dealer on the street
They may not like it
But the voters of Mi made this law and they have to support and protect it
Not undermine it
Their storm troopers have no place in a biz
Properly operated for X months without any trouble at all
The place we want citizens to be safe
Getting their medicine
Instead of out on the streets
That Cooper and Bouchard ignored
To make their media show
Let me know if/when you want to do more.
Reenactment of city fathers' visits might be fun!
M
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Marj,
Thanks so much for helping us yesterday. It was a huge help. Mikey called me today and said how much he cares for my client after going through the re-enacment. I've liked my client from the beginning. Now I feel like I was there during the raid. It's in my muscle memory and I won't forget it.
Would it be okay if Tom I each paid you $400.00 for the prep for a total of $800? I know you've already reduced your fee but I thought I'd have at least two other attorneys splitting the costs. That's not your issue, I know.
Cheryl
Cheryl A. Carpenter, PLLC
Attorney at Law
25742 Schoolcraft Road
Redford, MI 48239
(248) 229-9359
(248) 671-0477 (fax)