Supreme Court upholds federal ban of all weed use

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Supreme Court upholds federal ban of all weed use

Postby MK » Mon Jun 06, 2005 11:42 am

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050606/ap_ ... MlJVRPUCUl

Long story short, medical marijuana is illegal - state laws cannot overturn federal bans on medical marijuana (currently ten states have such laws). BUT, if Congress passes a law that legalizes medical marijuana, then it would be okay. So any legalization would have to be done at the federal level.

Decision was 6 to 3.
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Postby Rspaight » Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:05 pm

God forbid anyone should feel good in this country.

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Postby dcooper » Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:51 pm

What about states' rights? The conservatives should be up in arms over this egregious, overreaching judicial activism.
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Postby MK » Mon Jun 06, 2005 1:51 pm

You'd think there was some middle ground that could be reached, like developing pot in pill or even injection form and having it administered by a medical professional, like vaccines or allergy injections are. The plaintiffs:

Monson, 48, of Oroville, was prescribed marijuana by her doctor in 1997, after standard prescription drugs didn't work or made her sleepy. She is battling degenerative spine disease.

Raich suffers from scoliosis, a brain tumor, chronic nausea and other problems.
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Postby RDK » Tue Jun 07, 2005 5:06 pm

MK wrote:You'd think there was some middle ground that could be reached, like developing pot in pill or even injection form


They do - it's called Marinol.
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