The Little Black Book of Marijuana: The Essential Guide to the World of Cannabis by Elliott Steve

Author:Elliott, Steve [Elliott, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“prescribe”

medical

marijuana

because of marijuana’s federal

Schedule I classification.)

Conant v. McCaffrey, a class

action lawsuit, was filed on behalf

of physicians and seriously ill

patients, and after a protracted five-

year court battle, a three-judge

panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of

Appeals in 2002 unanimously

decided to uphold the right of

doctors to recommend marijuana to

their patients, and of patients to

receive that recommendation.

Judge Mary Schroeder, who wrote

the majority opinion, noted that the

federal government’s policy of

revoking doctors’ licenses “leaves .

. . no security for free discussion.”

A concurring opinion by Judge Alex

Kozinski went even further, taking

note of the prevailing evidence on

the medical usefulness of marijuana.

The Raich Decision

The United States Supreme Court

ruled in 2005 in Raich v. Gonzales

that the federal government can

prosecute

medical

marijuana

patients, even in states with

compassionate use laws. Medical

marijuana dispensaries are thus

subject to DEA raids and have been

raided in the past.

But the Obama administration

announced a different direction, as

had been promised in the 2008

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