Paper Magazine: How to Change Federal Law
Bill Weinberg recently wrote an article for Paper magazine (yes, it’s printed on paper!) about changing cannabis laws and quoted me about how this might happen. Here’s a link to the full article, and my […]
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Physicians’ First Amendment right to recommend cannabis
Conant v. Walters: Physicians have a First Amendment right to discuss cannabis with patients — not to help them obtain it. The order enjoins the federal government from either revoking a physician’s license to prescribe controlled substances […]
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Shattered Lives reveals harms of US Drug War
A wake-up call to every American. Shattered Lives: Portraits From America’s Drug War By Mikki Norris, Virginia Resner and Chris Conrad, creators of Human Rights and the Drug War and the HRDW exhibition project A […]
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Court upholds cutoff of DoJ funds in medical marijuana states
U.S. vs. McIntosh In the opinion of U.S. vs. McIntosh, written by Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, the court held that the Rohrabacher-Farr Amendment, recently passed by Congress and signed by the President, prohibits federal prosecution of […]
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State laws do not shield patients from federal prosecution
Gonzalez v. Raich The text of the 2005 US Supreme Court decision reversing the 2003 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that the Interstate Commerce Clause of the US Constitution does not reach medical marijuana […]