The Associated PressPublished: November 16, 2006
SAN DIEGO: A state judge tentatively rejected San Diego County's challenge of California's decade-old law permitting marijuana use for medical purposes before hearing oral arguments from the county meant to change his mind....
San Diego County sued California and its health services director in February over the state's decade-old law permitting use of the drug with a physician's approval.
Two other California counties, San Bernardino and Merced, joined San Diego as plaintiffs. All three counties have refused to comply with a state requirement that counties issue identification cards for medical marijuana users and maintain a registry of people who apply for the cards....
...California's law allows people suffering AIDS, cancer, anorexia, chronic pain, arthritis and migraine and "any other illness for which marijuana provides relief" to grow or possess small amounts of marijuana with a doctor's recommendation.
Since California voters passed the law with 55 percent approval in 1996, 10 other states have adopted measures protecting qualified patients from prosecution. They are Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.
Last week, voters in South Dakota rejected a ballot measure to permit marijuana use for medical purposes.
In 2003, the California Legislature amended the 1996 bill to direct county health departments to issue identification cards to medical marijuana users.
Counties, which did not receive money to fulfill the requirement, have been slow to issue ID cards, but San Diego was the first to refuse on legal grounds.
Yeesh, let's hope the judge doesn't have a pow wow with these dipshits , the will of voters in California won't have a chance if he does.
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