http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5614
This article is about the refusal of the supreme court to review a landmark decision regarding marijuana in the state of California. Following the decision of the California Supreme Court, that it is not the responsibility of state law enforcement agencies to pursue marijuana agencies within the parameter of the state, this issue angered many people. “It’s now settled that state law enforcement officers cannot arrest medical marijuana patients or seize their medicine simply because they prefer the contrary federal law,” said Joe Elford, Chief Counsel with Americans for Safe Access (ASA).
What is going on? Why is this even being disputed? Isn’t marijuana the all-bad drug that everyone knows it to be, like cocaine and heroine? Well apparently, due to the rapid increase in marijuana usage within the state of California over the past decade, people have begun questioning its motives. Recent research has shown that marijuana can help lessen anxiety as well as many other medical ailments, and considering that even alcohol is a drug, why should this one be illegal. I have a feeling that over the next ten to twenty years we will be seeing a drastic change in the laws and the division between the power of the state and US government.
