Wary Court Considers Medical Marijuana
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Angel McClary Raich, left, and her husband attorney Rob Raich listen during a news conference in Oakland, Calif. in this June 28, 2004 file photo.
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Can states allow residents to use marijuana for medical reasons when the federal government says no? That is the question being currently debated by the justices
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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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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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The Supreme Court questioned whether state medical marijuana laws might be abused by people who aren&#39;t really sick as it debated on Monday whether the federal government can
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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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The Supreme Court appeared hesitant yesterday to endorse medical marijuana for patients who have a doctor&#39;s recommendation. Justices are considering whether sick people in 11 states with medical marijuana laws can get around a federal ban on the drug.
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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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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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California&#39;s self-described &quot;spokespatient&quot; for medical marijuana watched the Supreme Court debate her case Monday, then pleaded publicly for the justices to allow her and other sick people to continue using the drug.
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(BCN) -- Two Northern California women will take their bid for the right to use medical marijuana to the US Supreme Court on Monday.
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Justices expressed little inclination to view drug policy as an issue by which states can displace regulation of homegrown marijuana.
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Several U.S. Supreme Court justices  expressed reservations on 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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Several U.S. Supreme Court justices expressed reservations on Monday about allowing medical marijuana for sick patients whose doctors have recommended they smoke it for pain.
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The Supreme Court is about to plunge into an agenda laden with issues affecting the business sector. Tobacco companies, the biotech industry and operators of coal-fired power plants have a stake in cases the court will hear in the next month.
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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.