[SteveMcKing]

Marinol

Anyone not satisfied with that is either playing political games, or they are outright drug users who want it legalized.

[Unknowing]

All I want to know is whether to sell my Wackenhut stock yet! Another couple million prisoners, and I'll be ready to pay the darn capital gains tax and cash in.

[KoRn]

(Puts on His Flame Proof Suit)

I have NEVER hoped for judicial liberalism, but I hope they use this to over reach and END the idiotic "War on Drugs".

[rmmcdaniell]

"The argument can be made for a patient who's living in California that's growing their own medicine, there's no interstate commerce that's happening. So therefore, the federal government does not have the jurisdiction to step in and interfere in these laws."

This is all that matters. If you don't want people smoking pot get a super majority to pass a constitutional amendment allowing the federal government to regulate drugs within states or sit down and shut up.

[Wolfie]

ping

[Huck]

Hey Wolfie. Interesting case, I guess. It's hard to tell for sure because the article so quickly veers away from the legal argument involved and never returns. It seems to me the efficacy of marijuana as medicine is totally irrelevant to the argument.

They are claiming that homegrown pot for home use is outside the jurisdiction of the CSA of 1970. I will be surprised if this argument is a novel one. It must have come up before, regardless of the medicinal issue. The article doesn't say.

I'm pinging the expert. Seems to me it'd be pretty revolutionary if homegrown for home use was outside federal jurisdiction. Doesn't seem to hinge on the medicinal value at all, except to the extent that it protects them from state level prosecution.

[tacticalogic]

In either case, health activists, social policy makers and international drug companies will be awaiting the Court's final ruling with great interest.

Anyone wanting to get the federal back into confines of it's constitutional boundaries better be paying attention, too.

[Zon]

A government that can prohibit what a person puts in their body the same government can force people to put something in their body.

For example, people are prohibited from taking certain drugs while many children are forced to take Ritalin. Which government will be first to force chip implants in citizens?

[BOOTSTICK]

"Safe and Effective" this is where the dopers argument fails, the feds can ban Pot just as they can ban a state from manufacturing and selling Vioxx....sorry Libertarian know nothings you lose again! Oh by the way ask any Doctor is inhaling carbon monoxide is healthy....good luck!!!

[MEGoody]

Here's the solution: Patients whose doctors believe they could benefit from using marijuana "medicinally" should be able to do so only if they participate in a study to determine the validity of the supposed benefits. Some of these participants would be given a 'placebo' as is usual in drug effectiveness studies.

If it is determined that marijuana does, indeed, have medicinal benefits, the active ingredients should be processed into a form less damaging to the human body than smoking.