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Pot growing grandma takes on Ypsilanti Twp. over medical marijuana operation in basement
By Charlie Langton and FOX 2 Staff
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YPSILANTI TWP, Mich. (FOX 2) - A 79-year-old grandma in Ypsilanti Township is fighting her city over the legal amount of marijuana she can grow in her home.
Judith Pontius has 55 medical marijuana plants growing inside her home but the city says she can t that many plants and ordered her to stop. She fought the city and got lower-level courts to agree with her. But the state supreme court? That s where she lost her fight.
Well, maybe not quite. Pontius still has the pot in her house. Now she has the support of protesters outside the Washtenaw County Courthouse as she faces 93 days in jail.
Ypsilanti Township woman, 79, ordered to reduce number of marijuana plants
Judith Pontius says she’s growing them to help those in pain
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July 15, 2021 6:57 am
Ypsilanti grandmother is again ordered to reduce number of medical pot plants
Judith Pontius was previously threatened with jail time if she did not remove her plants. Ypsilanti Township attorneys said she failed to follow previous court orders in doing so.
Pontius virtually appeared before a judge on the 55-plus marijuana plants in her home. In the hearing, attorneys representing the township tried to have her held in contempt of court for refusing to comply with removing the plants.
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