Michigan Medical Cannabis Patient Jailed For Weed

An 80-year-old MMJ patient said that she was arrested and jailed for “less than an eighth  of weed.”

80-year-old Delores Saltzman of Clare County, Michigan was put in jail when police came to her home for someone else and smelled cannabis. Saltzman admitted to Clare County Sheriff’s Deputy Ashley Gruno that the weed belonged to her and explained that her medical cannabis card had expired.

According to court records, Deputy Gruno was trying to locate Satlzman’s great-granddaughter to return her lost phone and ID when she smelled the odor of cannabis. Saltzman says the deputy searched her bedroom, took photographs, and even helped her clean up her kitchen, before cuffing her, putting her in a patrol car, and hauling her off to jail.   

Her son Mark said Deputy Gruno made a mistake arresting her, stating “I just thought it was absolutely ridiculous to put her through this like that. They could have given her a ticket.”

But Clare County Sheriff John Wilson disagreed stating, “What that person was doing was illegal, had she renewed her medical marijuana card she would have been fine.”

Court records show on August 2, 2018, a judge signed an order to dismiss Saltzman’s case without prejudice.