Medical Marijuana - State Or Federal Issue?

Sacramento, CA -- Americans for Safe Access say the Compassionate Use Act, is a big victory for Medical Marijuana patients.

According to the organization more than eight years after Californian's voted for the Compassionate Use Act (CUA), allowing people to use marijuana medically, local law enforcement remains defiantly “confused” about which law to uphold, state or federal.

They say that because of the reluctance by California Attorney General Bill Lockyer to clarify the issue for local police, a “culture of resistance” to enforcing state law has been allowed to fester.

A glimmer of hope, seen by many supporters as a big victory, is a statement made by Lockyer in a recent brief to the First District of the California Court of Appeals.

Where Lockyer dismissed the entire federal law argument of a patient whose medicine was confiscated, he said the continuing prohibition of marijuana possession under federal law.

Other News

• Local Firefighters Dispatched To Vegetation Fire Near Oakdale
• Kopf Disappointed With Commission Vote 
• Half-Acre Fire Quickly Extinguished On Forest Service Land
• Taphorn Charged With DUI Following Accident
• Double Motorcycle Mishap On Parrotts Ferry Rd.
• Planning Commission Votes Against Mountain Springs 
• Cox Introduces Legislation To Redirect First Five Funds 
• Prescribed Burn In Summit Ranger District
• Public Testimony Ends Regarding Mountain Springs Community Project 
• Murphys´ Wiggins Charged With DUI

Click here to search the local News Stories

Get the news delivered to your mailbox. See all the day's local news at once without having to click through the site. Find out more by clicking [here].