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...success and services of the Los Angeles Cannabis Resource Center and similar medical-marijuana distributors across the country could soon be history. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court in a unanimous decision declared that illness is no excuse for legalizing marijuana--not even to ease the suffering of patients with cancer, AIDS or other life-threatening diseases. The folks on Santa Monica Boulevard, however respectable, are committing a federal crime as they collect baggies of Maude's Mighty Moss ("large and luscious reddish green buds, easy to break and roll," $18 a gram) and Adobe ("compressed green bud, fresh...
...Juan Garza is a different story. Most people have never heard of the 44-year-old marijuana trafficker who was convicted in 1993 in Brownsville, Texas, of murdering one associate and ordering the killings of two others. He was sentenced to death under a 1988 drug kingpin law. He also happens to be Hispanic, one of 17 minorities among the 20 (about to be 21) convicts on the Feds' death...
...Palumbo: We could, I suppose. But before that happened, the issue of medical use would probably go back to Congress, where it would be very hotly debated. At the moment, the federal government is digging in its heels over medical marijuana, and a handful of states happen to disagree with their policy...
...What would have to happen for marijuana to become a legal, regulated drug...
...Palumbo:Even if there were a movement at the federal level to approve marijuana as a regulated drug, the approval process would require a new drug application and lengthy clinical trials, because even though it?s not a new drug, the government would be considering a new use and a new label...