Medical use of marijuana under review
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WASHINGTON - A lawyer for two women who use marijuana as a painkiller told the US Supreme Court yesterday that the federal government has no constitutional authority to outlaw the cultivation of the drug within a state for medical use.
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SANTA CRUZ - An impassioned audience greeted the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday morning, when the board unanimously approved a new ordinance providing guidelines for medical marijuana use in Santa Cruz County.
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A federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld an 2002 injunction barring three California marijuana clubs from giving the drug to medical patients with a prescription. The ruling by judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sided with the Justice Department, which first sued the dispensaries in 1998 to stop sales of medical marijuana to patients with a doctorâs approval, as allowed under a California law approved by voters in 1996. The law has been at the heart of a series of legal battles over state and federal drug laws, which categorize marijuana as illegal. The ruling was likely the last legal recourse for the clubs. In 2001, the United States Supreme Court heard the case and ruled against the California cooperatives.
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The government is to review all studies linking cannabis use to mental health problems, it has announced.
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Oversight has been lax on medical marijuana clinics in California and who can grow the dope for medical purposes. But cities are halting new clinics and the DEA is targeting those with iffy practices. By the Associated Press.
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The Supreme Court will hear arguments about the issue of medical marijuana tomorrow. A decision is expected tomorrow as well. Prosecutors say it is an addictive substance.
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WASHINGTON - Monday morning, the US Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that will clear the air on the legality of medical marijuana use.
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Angel Raich, a 39-year-old mother of two, smokes marijuana eight times a day in her Oakland home. By Ben Margot, AP. She does it to relieve pain from a brain tumor and more than a dozen other maladies.
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A leading U.S. doctors group has endorsed using marijuana for medical purposes, urging the U.S. government to roll back a prohibition on using it to treat patients and supporting studies into its medical applications.
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A report on law enforcement violations of the rights of medical marijuana patients in California was released Monday, August 16. The three-month study found local and state law enforcement is routinely seizing the marijuana to which California patients ...
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SUPREME COURT Both sides of the marijuana debate are watching the Supreme Court very carefully, as it hears arguments today on its use as medicine.
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THE NEWS: The Supreme Court considered whether state medical marijuana laws might be abused by people who aren't really sick, as the court heard arguments Monday on whether the federal government can prosecute patients who smoke pot. Justices will rule before next summer.
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Several US Supreme Court justices expressed reservations Monday about allowing medical marijuana for sick patients whose doctors have recommended they smoke it for pain.
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Seriously ill people should be allowed to smoke marijuana if it is recommended by their doctors. We hope the US Supreme Court agrees and decides that patients in Maine and 10 other states with medical marijuana laws can get around the federal ban on pot.
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The Supreme Court hears arguments today whether support of a doctor and a state medical marijuana law is enough to protect medical marijuana users from the federal government.
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The Supreme Court appeared hesitant Monday to endorse medical marijuana for patients who have a doctorÂ´s recommendation. Justices are considering whether sick people in 11 states
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Marijuana should be legalized for medical use, nearly three-fourths of participants in a new AARP poll said. Among participating seniors 70 and older, 69 percent supported legal use of medical marijuana.