New Legal Strategy in Medical Ganja Fight

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New Legal Strategy in Medical Marijuana Fight By Guy Ashley
Knight Ridder Newspapers November 23, 2005 Oakland, Calif. 
An Oakland woman whose landmark medical marijuana case was rebuffed five months ago by the U.S. Supreme Court renewed her legal fight Wednesday by filing papers in a federal appeals court. Lawyers for Angel Raich, 40, filed a brief in the federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals arguing that federal efforts to restrict medical marijuana violate her rights to take the only medication that allows her to avoid intolerable pain and death.
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Medical Marijuana Activist Revives Legal Challenge
By The Associated Press November 23, 2005 San Francisco
A 40-year-old Oakland woman who lost her medical marijuana case before the U.S. Supreme Court in June asked a lower federal court Wednesday to revive her request to be able to use marijuana without threat or fear of prosecution. Angel Raich, 40, smokes marijuana every few hours to ease pain from a host of ailments that includes scoliosis, a brain tumor and chronic nausea.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21334.shtml

Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana

Supreme Court Rules Against Compassionate Access
"When citizens require protection from their own government and need to cloak in secrecy acts of compassion for the sick and dying a great darkness befalls our nation. All people face suffering; every human being will find intimacy with this. It is our hope that this truth will awaken the sympathies of our judiciary and of congress. For it is the business of government to protect its people and to maintain the path of liberty clearing the way for freedom."
-- Valerie Leveroni Corral (WAMM Co-founder)



Cannabisnews Search: Angel Raich

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Who is Angel McClary Raich?



How the Raich v. Ashcroft federal medical cannabis lawsuit was born,
and who is involved...

In the days immediately following September 11, 2001, as the world was riveted by the issue of terrorism, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration turned its sights on a nonviolent group of seriously ill Americans, as it stepped up the level of time, money, and Federal law enforcement personnel used to attack medical cannabis patients.  Multiple raids of the homes and gardens of California’s medical cannabis caregivers and patients soon followed.  The DEA raids became ever more outrageous and more harmful to patients.  Angel Wings Patient OutReach, Inc. worked hard to develop a sound legal strategy to help ensure patients’ and caregivers’ safety and to create new public policies on the federal level.  Our legal team felt we had to do everything we could to stop the federal government's dangerous actions. continued...
http://www.angeljustice.org



Angel Justice
Angel Raich is one of two persons that sued then - U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, asking for a court order letting them smoke, grow or obtain marijuana without fear of arrest, home raids or other intrusion by federal authorities. The Supreme Court ruled Monday, that federal authorities may prosecute sick people whose doctors prescribe marijuana to ease pain, concluding that state laws don't protect users from a federal ban on the drug.



Pain Man by Mark Fiore

Medical Marijuana Political Cartoons

Articles: June 6th thru 17th, 2005
Washington, D.C. -- Two California women have no right to use locally grown marijuana for medical purposes when federal drug statutes outlaw its use under any circumstances.

My Name is Angel Raich
drugpolicy.org November 29, 2004



CannabisMD.org Reports
Attorneys for Angel Raich have argued her case in the Unites States Supreme Court. Medical Marijuana laws in the U.S. may be affected by this ruling expected in the first quarter of 2005

Does Congress want Angel Raich to break the law?
Crime & Federalism November 23, 2004

"One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
Martin Luther King, Jr

Pot Smoker of The Month: Angel Raich

DRCNet Interview: Supreme Court Plaintiff Angel McLary Raich 6/10/05



Gonzales v. Raich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Montel Williams, Angel Raich Blast Misstatements
on Supreme Court, Medical Marijuana Laws June 20, 2005
Ten State Laws Still Functioning; New Laws Can Be Enacted
NEW YORK -- At a press conference this morning on the steps of New York's City Hall, U.S. Supreme Court medical marijuana plaintiff Angel Raich, her husband and attorney Robert Raich, and TV host Montel Williams blasted elected officials in New York and elsewhere who have falsely claimed that the court's ruling in Gonzales v. Raich prevents them from enacting state medical marijuana laws. A number of New York legislators and Rhode Island Gov. Donald Carcieri (R) have made such statements. continued...
http://www.mpp.org/releases/nr20050620.html

[Tafari]

I sure hope they win this time because I really got fucked when this case; Raich v. Ashcroft came down June 6th.

Tafari

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[Tafari]

I'm being maliciously prosecuted because I was arrested early in the morning on June 6th. I only got charged with misdemeanor possession & a felony for hash. Well later that day when the decision came down - so did the damn DA. Charged me with Felony Transportation, Felony Poss. with intent, Felony for concentration of Hash, & Felony Cultivation for one clone.

Its a big joke & they know I'm a patient but even after all this time the DA doesn't want to drop the charges. She knows she cant beat me but its cost me thousands of dollars and a unhealthy amount of stress. Its not good when a judge say's you know your facing 5 years in prison.

Peace; Tafari