Up in Smoke! Judge Could Rule US Marijuana Ban Unconstitutional
The California courts will soon be hearing a case that could turn current federal law against marijuana on its head.
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of California in Sacramento will hear on March 25 a case involving nine persons accused of growing marijuana in the state’s Shasta-Trinity National Forest in northern California. Their attorneys argue that current federal law governing marijuana is wrong because the federal government places weed the same as heroin and other hard drugs under a Drug Enforcement Administration classification that states those drugs “(has) no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.”
The lawyers argue that can’t possibly apply to marijuana because medical marijuana is now legal in 23 states and Washington, D.C. There is no rational basis, legal experts tell Vice News, for that classification to be continued for marijuana, and therefore, no federal justification for enforcing the law under the current category which has been in place since 1970.
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