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Midnight Son
05-25-2004, 04:59 AM
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/24/health/main619226.shtml

Last month, a federal judge in San Jose issued a preliminary injunction banning the Justice Department, including the Drug Enforcement Administration, from interfering with the Corrals' pot garden, set above an ocean bluff near Davenport, about an hour south of San Francisco. The injunction gives the judge time to reconsider his earlier decision to allow the garden to be uprooted.

Still, the Corrals call the injunction a victory.

They share their harvest through the first legally recognized, nonprofit medical marijuana club in America, which they founded in 1993. The club has about 250 seriously ill members who have prescriptions from their doctors to use marijuana to alleviate their suffering, increase their appetites and control their seizures. The marijuana is free.

For now, the Corrals are the only people in the United States growing marijuana in their backyard backed by state law, a local ordinance and a federal judge's injunction. And Valerie Corral has become a heroine to proponents of medical marijuana.


Most excellent, dude!

Chris Nahr
05-25-2004, 06:49 AM
Are there any known connections between the "War on Drugs" and the pharma industry? Marijuana is a cheap alternative to painkillers and relaxation drugs, after all...

Dirt
05-25-2004, 08:48 AM
Only reason hemp is illegal is because it was cutting into cotton and tobacco profits.

Duality
05-25-2004, 08:54 AM
Does this mean I'll stop getting mail from the Drug Policy Alliance?

Andrew Mayer
05-25-2004, 09:18 AM
Only reason hemp is illegal is because it was cutting into cotton and tobacco profits.

That, and a huge demonization campaign by Hearst in order to make sure that hemp wouldn't cut into his paper holdings.

shift6
05-25-2004, 09:18 AM
It was also a good way for America to get rid of cheap Mexican labor during the Depression and rescue those jobs "for Americans".

In any event, the Feds still exercise their jurisdiction here in California despite that medical marijuana is legal under State law. So while it's good to see a Federal judge reconsider a decision, the battle ain't over yet.