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Marijuana Battlefield?
Posted by CN Staff on January 26, 2004 at 07:10:10 PT
Editorial
Source: Sacramento Bee 
Some El Dorado citizens are interested in establishing a medicinal marijuana garden, perhaps the first in California under a new state law. They may find their endeavor to be fertile ground for a court challenge.Federal law does not recognize any sanctioned medicinal use of marijuana, or a buyers' club or a buyers' garden. While federal efforts have failed in the courts to punish doctors who recommend marijuana or patients who use it under state guidelines, the final legal battlefield may well be in the fields.
If the feds can't manage a successful prosecution against medicinal marijuana cultivators, the blanket federal ban against medicinal marijuana in California essentially loses its teeth. Whether the test case turns out to originate in El Dorado or somewhere else, the showdown is inevitable. Since voters in California in 1996 approved the medicinal marijuana initiative (Proposition 215), the debate has evolved into one over states' rights. States have long regulated the practice of medicine. Snipped: Complete Article: http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/story/8164951p-9096501c.htmlSource: Sacramento Bee (CA)Published:  Monday, January 26, 2004Copyright: 2004 The Sacramento BeeContact: opinion sacbee.comWebsite: http://www.sacbee.com/Related Article & Web Site:Medical Marijuana Information Linkshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/medical.htmMedical Marijuana Co-op Farm Proposedhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18207.shtmlMedical Pot Co-op Farm Proposed for El Dorado http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18184.shtml
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Comment #1 posted by Max Flowers on January 26, 2004 at 10:10:03 PT
the last paragraph
The last paragraph of the above article is as follows:"The cultivation questions are the final frontier. If it takes one more raid on one more garden to get to the bottom of this, so be it."Exactly. It may take more than one more, but however many, let's get to it is my feeling. Let's get this sick brutality to happen right in the harsh glare of election year politics so that the dems can point to it as an undeniable example of how amoral the current administration is. Let's see Bush explain that sh!t away.Come to think of it, what in the hell are the dems thinking by NOT using the federal raids on medical cannabis patients as a major attack point on the repuglicans? They (the administration) are so vulnerable on it politically, I mean geez it's pretty hard to defend yourself against charges of beating up on and stealing the medicine of sick folks.
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