Santa Cruz to Sue Feds Over Medical Marijuana
Bump and Update: The suit's been filed.
Posted April 21:
The city and county of Santa Cruz, California will file suit Wednesday over medical marijuana. The lawsuit will be filed against Attorney General John Ashcroft, Acting DEA Administrator John Brown and Drug Czar John Walters. It will seek a preliminary injunction to allow a raided marijuana club to reopen and resume providing marijuana to the medically ill.
It is legal in California for medically ill people to use marijuana. It is illegal under federal law. Last year the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the federal ban on medical marijuana.``It is pretty clear that the people in the state of California support the use of medical marijuana,'' said Mardi Wormhoudt, a Santa Cruz County Supervisor. ``It is disturbing when the people in the state have overwhelmingly expressed their support at the ballot the federal government feels no right to uphold that.''Earlier this month, three U.S. Congressman, Sam Farr (D-CA), Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), and Barney Frank (D-MA), introduced the "Truth in Trials Act", to allow marijuna defendants, both users and providers to introduce evidence at trial that their actions were for medicinal purposes and in accordance with state law.
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