The Tuskegee Study is widely regarded as one of the largest medical blemishes in the history of the United States. It had the power to positively impact the thinking of the nation's physicians, while on the other side, negatively affect some of the country's already most infected citizens. The overa...
Some argue that this is just legalizing pot for anyone to grow and use, but in accordance with the bill only people with expressed permission from a physician are protected by this law. When the law was passed, the Clinton administration and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) acted quickly, concerned that Proposition 215 was the first step to legalizing pot for everyone. ... But after these law suits were filed, letter from mayors and other California officials were sent to President Clinton urging him to call off his legal actions. ...
The lawsuit was filed January 14, weeks after several advisors of the Clinton Administration made a public response to Proposition 215 (which would, were it to pass, make it legal for doctors to discuss and recommend marijuana to their patients) at a December 30 press conference. ... Representative Barney Frank (a democrat from Massachusetts) introduced H.R. 1782, a bill which would also attempt to move medicinal marijuana from schedule I to schedule II, eliminating federal restrictions. This bill would not change state laws, allowing individual communities to determine for themselves whethe...