Zero confirmation of DS's involvement with any sort of fun substances. The speculation by myself and others in this thread is based on:
DS having a key-chain fob thing associated with a device for surreptitiously smoking the ganja.
and
The involvement of the South Oakland special double secret drug task-force. South Oakland = Oakland county, where DS lived and worked. Tho the locus of major drug trafficking activity in South Oakland county is east of her work [Evergreen and 696], while DS lives west of her work, in Farmington Hills, where the drug activity is mostly of the retail consumption variety.
and ??? i believe jdj125, I think it was, noted DS's etsy account pinned smoking-related content
The 2nd one, LE reaching out to multiple drug related agencies [SONIC and DEA], is the more probative, as DS could've obtained the smiley-face key-chain fob from a friend who smokes, could've been pinning etsy items to purchase for that or another person, etc.
The involvement of the South Oakland drug squad suggests LE has reason to believe there's a nexus to drug activity; as I imagine the South Oakland drug task force has plenty on their plate without getting involved in a missing person case w.out a drug nexus.
Michigan has legal medical marijuana and there's an initiative to go full legal/taxed [Colorado/Washington state style] that was supposed to be on the ballot this time, but got bumped to 2018. Prolly a good move, given the bum-rush to the polls of Trump voters in 2016.
Even tho they are relatively easy to obtain and having one insulates a person against State/Local prosecution for simple possession, a lot of folks are uncomfortable with getting a med-weed card---the fear, i think, is it impacting insurance or employment or (not applicable in DS's case, afaik) some single parents fear it'll be used against them in custody battles. So they go black-market; which is cheaper than the official dispensaries and as plentiful as can be in SE Michigan.
