SCOTUS refuses to hear medical marijuana challenges by San Diego and San Bernadino counties.
May 18, 2009 by Dusty · 4 Comments
Thank Gawd for small miracles! From FindLaw:
The Supreme Court won’t hear another challenge to California’s decade-old law permitting marijuana use for medical purposes.
The high court on Monday refused to hear appeals from San Diego and San Bernardino counties, which say the justices have never directly ruled on whether California’s law trumps the federal controlled substances laws.
San Diego supervisors had sued to overturn the state law after it was approved by voters in 1996, but lower courts have ruled against them.
San Diego and San Bernardino counties argued that issuing identification cards to eligible users, as required by the 1996 state law, would violate federal law, which does not recognize the state measure.
A federal appeals court ruled that ID card laws “do not pose a significant impediment” to the federal Controlled Substances Act because that law is designed to “combat recreational drug use, not to regulate a state’s medical practices.”
The cases are County of San Bernardino v. California, 08-897 and County of San Diego v. San Diego NORML, 08-887.
In spite of what many people think..San Diego county is pretty friggin red..and they have been fighting this for over a decade..to me it seems like for-friggin-evah!
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December 20, 2007 by Dusty · 4 Comments
BushCo said it actually to 17 states in all. This little Caesar wants all the control, all of the time it seems. Excuse me whilst I toss my cookies over this latest, fresh hell perpetrated by the Bush Cartel. From the NYT article:
The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday denied California and 16 other states the right to set their own standards for carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles.
The E.P.A. administrator, Stephen L. Johnson, said the proposed California rules were pre-empted by federal authority and made moot by the energy bill signed into law by President Bush on Wednesday. Mr. Johnson said California had failed to make a compelling case that it needed authority to write its own standards for greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks to help curb global warming.
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