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Pot Group Wins Legal Round
Posted by CN Staff on April 22, 2004 at 08:22:32 PT
By Eric Bailey, Times Staff Writer
Source: Los Angeles Times 
A federal court ruling Wednesday will allow the patients of a Santa Cruz medical marijuana collective to at least temporarily begin cultivating and using cannabis without fear of raids by drug agents.U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel granted a preliminary injunction to the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana and denied a Bush administration attempt to dismiss a civil case brought by the collective to halt federal interference in their operations.
Though the decision does little to shield other medical marijuana dispensaries, Fogel's ruling protects the more than 200 alliance members as their case winds toward trial. The group can begin cultivating a pot garden on the Santa Cruz coast that was shut down 18 months ago in a raid by U.S. drug agents.The raid prompted outrage in the liberal bastion and drew nationwide media attention after local officials allowed the alliance to ceremoniously distribute pot to its patients on the steps of City Hall.Valerie Corral, the group's founder, called the decision an incredible victory that lifts a shroud of fear from the collective's patients, three-quarters of whom are terminally ill.Snipped:Complete Article: http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/round.htmSource: Los Angeles Times (CA)Author: Eric Bailey, Times Staff WriterPublished: April 22, 2004 Copyright: 2004 Los Angeles TimesContact: letters latimes.comWebsite: http://www.latimes.com/ Related Articles & Web Sites:WAMMhttp://www.wamm.org/Pictures From WAMM Protesthttp://freedomtoexhale.com/eventpics.htmJudge Tells Feds To Back Off from Med Pot Grouphttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18705.shtmlMedical-Marijuana Fight Returns To Courthttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18572.shtmlJudge Refuses To Block Raids of Marijuana Farm http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread17175.shtml 
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Comment #2 posted by kaptinemo on April 22, 2004 at 11:57:09 PT:
More chunks of the DrugWar Wall
have come smashing down...with hardly a sound. Partly because of the shocked, stunned silence of the DrugWarriors, watching something they thought impregnable being dismantled before their eyes.It's enough to make one want to wear one of those sandwich boards the loons in parks adorn themselves with, and march back and forth in front of local DEA offices, saying "Repent, sinners! The End is Near!"
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Comment #1 posted by E_Johnson on April 22, 2004 at 10:23:43 PT
Republican heads must be whipping around
""It allows us to work with healing and with facing death without fear of federal government creating more hardship in our lives," said Corral, noting that 22 patients have died since the case was filed a year ago."This is not what most Republicans want to hear about a Republican administration -- that a Republican made the federal government create hardship for the terminally ill. 
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