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Supreme Court allows prosecution of medical marijuana
Monday, June 6, 2005 Posted: 10:40 AM EDT (1440 GMT)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal authorities may prosecute sick people who smoke pot on doctors' orders, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, concluding that state medical marijuana laws don't protect users from a federal ban on the drug.
The decision is a stinging defeat for marijuana advocates who had successfully pushed 10 states to allow the drug's use to treat various illnesses.
Justice John Paul Stevens, writing the 6-3 decision, said that Congress could change the law to allow medical use of marijuana.
The closely watched case was an appeal by the Bush administration in a case that it lost in late 2003. At issue was whether the prosecution of medical marijuana users under the federal Controlled Substances Act was constitutional.
Under the Constitution, Congress may pass laws regulating a state's economic activity so long as it involves "interstate commerce" that crosses state borders. The California marijuana in question was homegrown, distributed to patients without charge and without crossing state lines.
Stevens said there are other legal options for patients, "but perhaps even more important than these legal avenues is the democratic process, in which the voices of voters allied with these respondents may one day be heard in the halls of Congress."
California's medical marijuana law, passed by voters in 1996, allows people to grow, smoke or obtain marijuana for medical needs with a doctor's recommendation. Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont and Washington state have laws similar to California.
In those states, doctors generally can give written or oral recommendations on marijuana to patients with cancer, HIV and other serious illnesses.
In a dissent, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said that states should be allowed to set their own rules.
"The states' core police powers have always included authority to define criminal law and to protect the health, safety, and welfare of their citizens," said O'Connor, who was joined by other states' rights advocates.
The legal question presented a dilemma for the court's conservatives, who have pushed to broaden states' rights in recent years, invalidating federal laws dealing with gun possession near schools and violence against women on the grounds the activity was too local to justify federal intrusion.
O'Connor said she would have opposed California's medical marijuana law if she was a voter or a legislator. But she said the court was overreaching to endorse "making it a federal crime to grow small amounts of marijuana in one's own home for one's own medicinal use."
The case concerned two seriously ill California women, Angel Raich and Diane Monson. The two had sued then-U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, asking for a court order letting them smoke, grow or obtain marijuana without fear of arrest, home raids or other intrusion by federal authorities.
Raich, an Oakland woman suffering from ailments including scoliosis, a brain tumor, chronic nausea, fatigue and pain, smokes marijuana every few hours. She said she was partly paralyzed until she started smoking pot. Monson, an accountant who lives near Oroville, California, has degenerative spine disease and grows her own marijuana plants in her backyard.

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I can so see what is happening in this FX docudrama "Oil Storm" actually happening... I've always said something like this could happen... we can only process oil in fewer areas than you canc ount with one hand... it'd only take 1 group of terrorists or one natrual disaster to disable a good percent of our ability to process crude oil... I wouldn't be suprised if sometime in the next few yeasr similiar events left us in the same situation as that in this film

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who wants to be my roomate... a toilet overflowed here this morning because she put like 2 rolls of toiletpaper down it... then starts screaming at me that I did it (um I haven't used her bathroom in over a year) then she fucking walks aroud in underwear screaming and ranting and raving cleaning it up, now we are going to be severly late to work because instead of letting me clean it up while she gets some fucking clothes on and gets ready for work... fuckin sick psychopath *nods*

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My godfather is crazy... a bit about him... During WWII he was UDT... what the seals are now... the seals are the sons of UDT... then he was the sherrif of Fort Wayne for quite some time and when he wasn't sherrif he was a chopper pilot for the department. He's also a 32nd degree Mason, watched my dad rise through the degrees of the Lodge... and the gods willing he'll watch me raise through most of my degrees (if not all). Here he is in a picture... mind you he's in his 70's... this picture is about 5 years old... it is him and his Hawk-plane (light-sport aircraft)

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So I got bored Friday night, and called one of the phone lines... for thefree 30 minutes... (caleld 612-4444) talked to this chick on there for about 20 minutes, then she gave me her number and went to bed I called her today and she only could talk for a second... said she'd call back... well she did... and we talked for 40 minutes or so about trucks and cool stuff... heh... so I"ve made a new friend, only bad part is she lives here (in avon), but is moving back to fort wayne next month... but she seems awesome... no reason why we can't be phone friends, plus its only an hourish drive.

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So I got bored Friday night, and called one of the phone lines... for thefree 30 minutes... (caleld 612-4444) talked to this chick on there for about 20 minutes, then she gave me her number and went to bed I called her today and she only could talk for a second... said she'd call back... well she did... and we talked for 40 minutes or so about trucks and cool stuff... heh... so I"ve made a new friend, only bad part is she lives here (in avon), but is moving back to fort wayne next month... but she seems awesome... no reason why we can't be phone friends, plus its only an hourish drive.

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So I got bored Friday night, and called one of the phone lines... for thefree 30 minutes... (caleld 612-4444) talked to this chick on there for about 20 minutes, then she gave me her number and went to bed I called her today and she only could talk for a second... said she'd call back... well she did... and we talked for 40 minutes or so about trucks and cool stuff... heh... so I"ve made a new friend, only bad part is she lives here (in avon), but is moving back to fort wayne next month... but she seems awesome... no reason why we can't be phone friends, plus its only an hourish drive.