Judge tells feds to back off from medical pot group

[Kadie]

udge tells feds to back off from medical pot group

DAVID KRAVETS, Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, April 21, 2004


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(04-21) 16:50 PDT SAN FRANCISCO (AP) --

A judge on Wednesday ordered the federal government to keep away from a California medical marijuana group that grows and distributes cannabis for its sick members.

The order by U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel in San Jose was the first interpretation of a federal appeals court decision here last year that ordered the federal government not to prosecute a sick Oakland woman who smoked marijuana with a doctor's recommendation under a 1996 California medical marijuana law.

Fogel ruled that the Justice Department cannot raid or prosecute the 250 members of the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana, which sued the government after the Drug Enforcement Administration in 2002 raided its Santa Cruz County growing operation and seized 167 marijuana plants.

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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/04/21/state1934EDT0168.DTL

[arcane1]

1. FREE ED ROSENTHAL!!!!!!!!!!!

dammit!!!

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2. Uh...

...Ed is free or did they arrest him again recently?

http://www.hippy.com/php/article.php?sid=6

[arcane1]

4. D'oh!

I am obviously way behind on this story :silly:

thanks for the great news!!!!!!!!!! :toast:

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3. I never thought...

...that by 2004 the war on weed would still be so viable.

I remember when Brown was Governor and Carter was Prez. We were on the verge of ending the insanity but then the wacky right took hold with senile Ronnie at the helm.

[Pushed To The Left]

5. Good for Judge Fogel!

It's bad enough that people can still be arrested for what they choose to put inside their own bodies. The fact that people are being raided for taking their medicine shows the true colors of the people behind the drug war. They care more about enforcing their sick form of "morality" than they do about people that are suffering.

[SHRED]

6. Also

The War on (some) Drugs is a jobs program for the Law enforcers, Prisons, lawyers, government agents, drug testers, and yes even the drug dealers themselves.
They win and we don't.