Federal Judge Will Allow Medical Use Exception

[barman]

A federal judge in California will be the first to allow the introduction of a medical marijuana defense in response to federal marijuana charges.

Previous cases, most brought by the Ashcroft Justice Dept, did not permit medical users and suppliers in California - where medical pot is legal - to introduce disscussion of said medical use when charged by the Feds.

Thus a number of terminally ill patients have been charged by Ashcroft and then not been allowed to tell the jury why they were using and/or supplying pot. This of course meant slam dunk convictions and mandatory jail sentences of 10+ years with no chance of parole.

This most recent case should help protect patients from the Ashcroft-led jihad against the sick and dying of California and other states where medical marijuana is legal.

 

[BigGamesOnly]

While I find this disturbing, what has not been brought out by the media is that cocaine has been used as an anesthetic for over a century and is still in use as such today. It has been used for cosmetic surgery as a pain-killer.

Why such an uproar about medical marijuana??

 

[Sodium Pentethol V]

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Yea jails are full of terminally ill people busted for smoking weed.

Really do you take drugs?

 

[xpanda]

BGO: because the pharmaceutical industry can neither manufacture nor patent marijuana.

All drugs should be legal anyway. I would love to see the REAL money trail in the drug war ...