[Download] "Do I Feel Your Pain? Medical Marijuana, The Workplace, And Federalism." by Ethical and Regulatory Issues Journal of Legal # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Do I Feel Your Pain? Medical Marijuana, The Workplace, And Federalism.
- Author : Ethical and Regulatory Issues Journal of Legal
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 257 KB
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HISTORY OF FEDERAL LAW AND CALIFORNIA'S COMPASSIONATE USE ACT The Compassionate Use Act of 1996 (California Health & Safety Code, [section] 11362.5), voted on and approved by the California Voters (as Proposition 215), provides a person who uses marijuana for medical purposes on a physician's recommendation with a defense to certain state criminal charges involving the use and possession of the drug. Currently, twelve states have laws that allow patients to use medical marijuana (Medical Marijuana Laws Vary Among States). One of those state laws, California's Compassionate Use Act, created a federalism issue before the U.S. Supreme Court in the context of whether legal medical marijuana users (in a state authorizing such use) could be exempted from federal criminal prosecution under federal laws prohibiting the possession, use, and harvesting of cannabis (Gonzales v. Raich). In that case, two plaintiffs, Angel Raich and Diane Monson, suffered from a variety of serious medical conditions. Both women were prescribed marijuana after their doctors determined that it was the only available drug that provided them with effective treatment. Raich's physician went so far as to opine that forgoing cannabis treatments would cause Raich excruciating pain and could very well prove fatal (Id. at 7).