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A week before that, Covert plans to privacy concerns, spokesman Dave Akerly turned placed her with Maria Green’s moth- request the decision be made by a jury. said in an email. “But, in general for any ‘Free Bree’ er), was that he saw the Greens’ home as “I feel that if we present this to a jury case here at DHS, we would look at par- unfit because there was medical marijuana of their peers, they will have a hard time enting as being the key factor during an The case of 7-month-old Brielle growing there, albeit legally. proceeding” with taking Bree away, Covert investigation.” Green and her parents’ fight to “It’s reasonable to assume marijuana said. “I believe a jury would be shocked to “The safety and well-being of the chil- bring her back home is being grown in the home with children see what has transpired. The Greens’ funda- dren involved is always going to be para- being present,” Porter said during Friday’s mental right has been trampled on.” mount. Maria and Gordon “Steve” Green want to hearing. “That is dangerous for children to Covert pointed to a section of the “As for marijuana itself, we look at it in know why being legally registered medical be involved with that situation. We have Michigan Medical Marihuana Act that says the same way as we would any drug usage, marijuana patients makes them unfit to live homes in this community robbed at gun- a person shall not lose custody of a minor prescription drug or otherwise with one with their 7-month-old daughter. point by individuals who know children are unless it “creates an unreasonable danger major difference: in the case of pills, etc., we More than 100 people who staged a pro- living in the home. … I’ve had several rob- to the minor that can be clearly articulated can determine with a blood sample or series test on their behalf in downtown Lansing bery cases come before me where people on and substantiated.” of samples if the dosage matches that of the Tuesday are wondering the same thing. the street hear prescription in terms of use. That simply is The Greens, who appeared at a hearing drugs are being not the same case with marijuana.” Friday in Ingham County Probate Court, grown in the Over a hundred people gathered at had their 7-month-old daughter, Brielle, home, know chil- noon Tuesday outside of the Department removed from their Larch Street home dren are present of Human Services building on Grand after Child Protective Services success- in the home, Avenue to protest Bree Green’s removal fully petitioned the court to do so. By the choose to break from her parents. Elected officials, attor- same decree, her 6-year-old son, Elliott, for in anyway with neys and advocates stood beside the whom she had shared custody with her ex- guns thinking Greens, erupting occasionally into loud husband, can no longer stay with them. He they’re going to chants of “Free Bree.” lives with his father in Genesee County. make it rich get- Thomas Lavigne, a Detroit-based The CPS recommendation was based ting some drugs, attorney with Cannabis Counsel, said the on an interview with Elliott, testified Lori marijuana and Greens’ case is not isolated and said there’s Bundy, a services specialist with the state money.” “a level of xenophobia against medical Department of Human Services, who is Porter also marijuana patients.” working on the case. Bundy said the child said that Steve “Now with our children, this is where told her last month that he had witnessed Green had tested we draw the line. This is our red line,” he “medicine flowers” growing at the house. He positive for eight said, in reference to President Obama’s also reported “various people in the home months this year “red line” comment about the use of smoking in the kitchen with children pres- while having chemical weapons in Syria. ent,” she testified. bond conditions Jim Gierach, a former prosecutor from Bundy was unable to verify the presence from the pend- Chicago who represents the organization of marijuana in the home, she said dur- ing charges in Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, said ing Friday’s hearing, because the Greens Oakland County. the failure of the War on Drugs “is seen on refused to let her enter the house without a It never came up the Green family and this infant Bree. … court order, based on their attorney’s advice. during the hear- Bree belongs home.” Maria and Steve Green have felony ing, but Steve State Rep. Jeff Irwin, an Ann Arbor marijuana charges pending in Oakland Green said after- Democrat who has introduced statewide County, where they used to live, from an ward that he was legislation to decriminalize marijuana, incident in 2011. They said they plan to able to continue called Porter’s decision Friday “twisted and show the court next month that they were using medical Andy Balaskovitz/City Pulse. Courtesy photo. imbecilic logic.” legal under the state medical marijuana marijuana to treat Maria (left) and Gordon “Steve” Green at a rally Tuesday outside of “This infant has been taken from her law to grow the 29 plants that police his epilepsy until the state Department of Human Services building.