Whats the significance of the Supreme Court ruling on medical marijuana?
What’s the significance of the Supreme Court ruling on medical marijuana? The US Supreme Court has struck a blow against the medical marijuana movement, ruling that federal law enforcement agencies have the power to seize and destroy marijuana plants and arrest their growers – even in states which have passed medical marijuana laws. It is a particular blow to patients with Aids, cancer and other serious illnesses who use the plants as pain-relief medicine and must now regard themselves as criminals liable to prosecution. Does this mean the end of medical marijuana in the United States? Not exactly, but it does at least uphold an increasingly restrictive status quo. Under the Bush administration, which has taken a particularly hard anti-drug line, that status quo has meant regular raids on pot farms and distribution clinics. In California, the first and by far the biggest of the 10 states to sanction medical marijuana, officials will now be extremely reluctant to develop a proper infras
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