Pot ID Program Shelved
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/state/la-me-pot9jul09,1,5339588.story?coll=la-news-state
# Verification system for medicinal users is put on hold after U.S. Supreme Court ruling creates concerns about possible prosecutions.
By Rong-Gong Lin II, Times Staff Writer
California health officials Friday suspended a pilot program that issues photo identification to medical marijuana users out of concern that a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling could make the state and ID holders targets for federal prosecution.
The action comes a month after the nation's high court ruled that the federal government could seize and destroy marijuana being used as medicine, regardless of state laws such as California's Proposition 215 that allow the drug's use by patients who have received a doctor's permission...
I think it's ashame that they're stopping the program. If they cave in, that means the federal bullies win and the people lose. The people of the state voted to legalize marijuana for medicinal use and the federal government has shown nothing but contempt for that decision. Does the rule of the people no longer govern? Has it been replaced by absolutism?
# Verification system for medicinal users is put on hold after U.S. Supreme Court ruling creates concerns about possible prosecutions.
By Rong-Gong Lin II, Times Staff Writer
California health officials Friday suspended a pilot program that issues photo identification to medical marijuana users out of concern that a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling could make the state and ID holders targets for federal prosecution.
The action comes a month after the nation's high court ruled that the federal government could seize and destroy marijuana being used as medicine, regardless of state laws such as California's Proposition 215 that allow the drug's use by patients who have received a doctor's permission...
I think it's ashame that they're stopping the program. If they cave in, that means the federal bullies win and the people lose. The people of the state voted to legalize marijuana for medicinal use and the federal government has shown nothing but contempt for that decision. Does the rule of the people no longer govern? Has it been replaced by absolutism?
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