the American Civil Liberties Union lawyer who defended the state law called the decision “a momentous victory for countless seriously ill patients”. The fully story is carried in the San Francisco Chronicle. The counsel for San Diego county, one of two counties who brought the challenge to the state law states that the county will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case.

The 4th District Court of Appeal in San Diego ruled July 31, 2008 that federal law does not require a state to impose criminal penalties for marijuana possession. The purpose of the federal law is “to combat recreational drug use, not to regulate a state’s medical practices” according to that court.

Fri 17 Oct 2008