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Jackson Council adopts resolution making entheogenic plants lowest enforcement priority (4–2)
Summary
After extensive public testimony, Jackson City Council approved a nonbinding resolution declaring investigation and arrest for entheogenic plants and fungi should be the city's lowest law-enforcement priority; the measure passed 4–2 after council debate sparked by personal testimonies and public-safety concerns.
Jackson City Council voted 4–2 on Dec. 16 to adopt a resolution declaring that the investigation and arrest of persons for planting, cultivating, purchasing, distributing or possessing entheogenic plants and fungi should be the city’s lowest law-enforcement priority.
The measure, introduced as a resolution rather than an ordinance, drew more than a dozen speakers during the public-comment period offering sharply different views. Supporters — including former Ann Arbor council member Anne Bannister and multiple local residents and clinicians — framed the change as a public-health and…
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