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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.

God forbid anyone should feel good in this country.

Ryan

What about states' rights? The conservatives should be up in arms over this egregious, overreaching judicial activism.

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.

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.