Elderly Woman Has Adverse Reaction to 'Liquid Marijuana' in Bloomfield Township

Officers with the Bloomfield Township Police Department assisted an 85-year-old woman who claimed to have a bad reaction to ingesting liquid marijuana this week, according to reports. 

Officers responded to the woman's residence in the 5000 Block of Westwood Lane on Dec. 14th after firefighters with the Bloomfield Township Fire Department were called there for a medical emergency. When officers arrived, they spoke with the woman, who said that she was having an adverse reaction from ingesting liquid marijuana. 

The woman said she has several medical ailments and received the substance from a friend who wanted to help ease the pain, according to reports. Firefighters transported the woman to hospital for treatment and further information about her condition was unavailable. Police seized the “liquid marijuana” the case was turned over to detectives for further investigation.

Liquid marijuana is an extract of the marijuana plant, and is also known as wax, or earwax because of how it appears before it is liquified for ingestion. There is some ambiguity as to its legality under the Michigan's Medical Marijuana Act, according to Royal Oak-based defense attorney Barton Morris. 

"It seems that earwax and other THC extracts definitely fall within the Act’s definitions and are lawful for a MMMA patient. But there are circumstances when it does not," he writes on his website. Anything foreign added to the substance at all during the creation process makes it illegal, he explains.