A CONSTITUTIONAL CASE FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA
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Hard cases make bad law, the old adage goes. But in the case of Ashcroft v. Raich, the medical marijuana case recently argued before the US Supreme Court (news - web sites), the opposite
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Federal agents trailed Sparky Rose as he drove a Porsche Carrera convertible to his medical marijuana clinic. Under California law, clinics are supposed to dispense marijuana just to seriously ill people and clinic owners are to get only "reasonable compensation." But to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the sports car suggested that Rose might be pocketing big money from his purportedly nonprofit clinic, New Remedies Cooperative.
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Several US Supreme Court justices expressed doubts that states can let seriously ill patients ease their symptoms by using marijuana, a drug the federal government has designated as illegal.
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The penalty for smoking pot in Alabama is up to 99 years in prison. But that hasn&#39;t stopped the Cotton State - along with Mississippi and Georgia â-rom siding with California in its battle to keep medical marijuana legal.
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A Supreme Court that has been defending states&#39; rights and supporting a law-and-order agenda finds itself in a quandary. A medical marijuana case the court heard Monday pits the two interests against each other.
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In California, seriously ill patients await a Supreme Court decision on the doctor-recommended medical marijuana which they feel has saved their lives.
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OAKLAND, Calif. A legal challenge by four Northern California residents over the federal government&#39;s prosecution of medical marijuana patients is scheduled to be heard by the US Supreme Court Monday.
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ON DOC'S ORDERS: A poll for AARP of adults age 45 and older found nearly three-fourths of them support legalizing marijuana for medical use.
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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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OAKLAND, Calif. -- The US Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in a case that could determine whether federal agents may prosecute people who abide by state medical marijuana laws.
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Florida voters approved this month a three-strikes constitutional amendment unlike any other state&#39;s - an amendment aimed not at killers and thieves but at doctors who foul up.
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Even if New York State legalized the use of medical marijuana, buying, selling or possessing it would remain a federal crime.
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New Mexico has a new medical marijuana law with a twist: It requires the state to grow its own.
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The US Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments over whether states can permit the seriously ill to buy or grow marijuana to ease their pain.
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Companies can fire employees who use marijuana for medical reasons even if California law allows such use because federal law prohibits it, the state's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.
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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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Angel Raich of Oakland, Calif., smokes marijuana every two hours as prescribed by her doctor to dull the pain of an inoperable brain tumor and other ailments, including seizures and wasting syndrome.