Free pot offered to those who register to vote at Lansing (Michigan) clinic

[marmar]

from the American Independent:



A Lansing medical marijuana dispensary is offering medical marijuana patients a choice of a half a gram of medical pot or a marijuana-laced baked good called a “medible” in exchange for registering to vote.

On the dispensary’s website, owner Skekina Pena writes:

Protect Your Access! Vote 2011:

All dispensaries are doing a voter registration drive. If you sign up at Your Healthy Choice, we will assist you in filling out the registration form and will mail it out for you. We believe in power in numbers and everyone taking a stand. So in appreciation, we will reward legal patients with a .5 gram free or a free medible! I’m planning an event for the preliminary voting that will have shuttles to the polls! We have to amend our Lansing ordinance! May God bless our efforts!

The webpage then encourages readers to support Lansing City Council candidates Derrick Quinney, A’Lynne Robinson and Harold Leeman. It also encourages readers to vote against City Council candidates Carol Wood and Jody Washington. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.americanindependent.com/195858/free-pot-offered-to-those-who-register-to-vote-at-lansing-mich-clinic

[trumad]

1. Oh God...

I can hear the Fox News engines beginning to rev up....

[WhiteTara]

2. That is so illegal!

I hope someone comes to their senses immediately. That is bribery, and it is only okay if you are repuke.

[Xithras]

5. Is it?

Paying people to vote is illegal, and telling people how to vote in exchange for any sort of compensation is illegal.

They're simply paying people to register. There was a flap during the last Presidential campaign over some paid registrations, and I seem to recall that the consensus was that doing so is legal. You're not influencing how they vote, which is illegal, but are merely trying to get them into a voting booth.

[DocMac]

3. wow..the cops are gonna snap!

[jzodda]

4. Come to NY!

I will register....20X :D