What personal freedom is next?

[Occhidiangela]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/06/scotus.m...a.ap/index.html

Ironically enough, two of the dissents were Renquist and Thomas, with O'Connor being the third.

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The War on Drugs now evokes a spectre that will excuse Liberals and the various whacko militias to make common cause. There is a strange alliance. Or are the Libs just gonna be sheep on this one?

I am disappointed by this. It's a chest thumping between DOJ and the State's sovereign right to pass laws per the Constitution. That Thomas and Rhenquist came down on the side of State's Rights should scream "reality check." O Connor is right.

The case concerned two seriously ill California women, Angel Raich and Diane Monson. The two had sued then-U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, asking for a court order letting them smoke, grow or obtain marijuana without fear of arrest, home raids or other intrusion by federal authorities.

Raich, an Oakland woman suffering from ailments including scoliosis, a brain tumor, chronic nausea, fatigue and pain, smokes marijuana every few hours. She said she was partly paralyzed until she started smoking pot. Monson, an accountant who lives near Oroville, California, has degenerative spine disease and grows her own marijuana plants in her backyard.

My younger brother works in SF, and is mildly familiar with this case. Will be talking to him soon.

Against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That's the oath I swore.

I'm about done with foreign. Domestic needs attention.

Occhi

EDIT:

Justice John Paul Stevens, writing the 6-3 decision, said that Congress could change the law to allow medical use of marijuana.

Write your Senators, write your Congressmen. Get involved. The people need to be heard from.