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Serenasailor
Veteran Poster
Username: Serenasailor
Post Number: 1428
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 02:58 pm: | 
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SAN FRANCISCO - A California woman whose doctor says marijuana is the only medicine keeping her alive is not immune from federal prosecution on drug charges, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
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The case was brought by Angel Raich, an Oakland mother of two who suffers from scoliosis, a brain tumor, chronic nausea and other ailments. On her doctor's advice, she eats or smokes marijuana every couple of hours to ease her pain and bolster a nonexistent appetite as conventional drugs did not work.
The Supreme Court ruled against Raich two years ago, saying that medical marijuana users and their suppliers could be prosecuted for breaching federal drug laws even if they lived in a state such as California where medical pot is legal.
Because of that ruling, the issue before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was narrowed to the so-called right to life theory: that marijuana should be allowed if it is the only viable option to keep a patient alive.
Raich, 41, began sobbing when she was told of the decision and said she would continue using the drug.
"I'm sure not going to let them kill me," she said. "Oh my God."
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Abm
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 8868
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 04:01 pm: |
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You think the pharmecutical industry - you know, the foks who PAY the politicians/courts to write, enforce & adjudicate laws that disallow America to almost-freely GROW what they now get paid BILLIONS for - gives a rat's fat a$$ about some poor woman dying?
If she wanna live, b*tch betta learn to get high on MERCK's supply! |
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