Know Your Rights: Compassion Missing From Marijuana Legislation?
The Santa Fe New Mexican › August 30, 2007
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This year, thanks to New Mexico's legislature and its governor, Bill Richardson, some New Mexicans are now entitled under state law to use marijuana to reduce their nausea, vomiting and loss of appetite caused by cancer, glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, HIV or AIDS, and "damage to the nervous tissue of the spinal cord with intractable spasticity."
The title of this new law is the "Lynn and Erin Compassionate Use Act" or CUA. It now competes with a federal law criminalizing use, distribution, and possession of marijuana entitled the "Controlled Substances Act" or CSA.See the full content of this document
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Know Your Rights: Compassion Missing From Marijuana Legislation?
There is nothing compassionate about the CSA. So what is its purpose?
According to the director of the Federal Bureau of Narcotic...See the full content of this document
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