Housing

At 25 years old, Shannon Sterner lives with pain. The Leoni Township resident has tried medications to manage the effects of fibromyalgia and reactive arthritis brought on by an infection. For the last nine months, she has been using a new method to deal with the discomfort caused by her conditions: medical marijuana. But her use of the drug, allowed under Michigan’s medical marijuana law, resulted in eviction from her federally subsidized apartment this week.

The executive director of the Flint Housing Commission wants drug testing to be a lease condition for people who rent subsidized housing, but the ACLU says that would be unconstitutional and is threatening a class action lawsuit if they enact a drug testing policy.