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Can't believe the Post missed this...or did they???

Gonzales v Raich is about to become history....see this story: U.S. v. Steele Federal Judge Allows Medical Marijuana Defense | JackHerer.com ... a-defense/

For those that just want the jist of the article:

U.S. V Steele is a landmark cannabis case that could change federal medical marijuana law for all 50 states.

This is the first case that any defendant in the United States has been allowed to raise an affirmative medical marijuana defense in federal court.

Cormac J. Carney, is the presiding federal judge in U.S. v Smith. In a courageous and historic ruling he decided that the medical marijuana issues will be heard as testimony. This is the first time this has happened in U.S. history.

While medical marijuana is not technically a legal defense, for the first time in U.S history the defendants will be able to testify to the jury that they were operating under prop 215. That testimony will show they were in complete compliance with California law, and the collective was very professionally run to provide safe access for patients in Orange county. The DEA as they always have is portraying these legal patients as ordinary drug dealers but this time for the first time the jury will hear the other side.

In an interesting twist the government has offered a deal for time served to Steel. To his credit and at great risk to himself, he has decided not to take the deal and faces up to ten years in federal prison for that decision. Steele Smith wants to go to trial because he believes the issues are to important and need to be adjudicated, in his fight to uphold the Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, States’ rights allowing safe, legal access to medical marijuana.

So we could see that decision overturned in the not so distant future...


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