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Compassionate Use Act Of 1996 Case Study

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The Compassionate Use Act of 1996 was passed by California voters which legalized the use of marijuana for medical purposes. However, the California law violated the established federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA), which banned the possession of marijuana. After the DEA seized prescribed marijuana from the home of a doctor’s patient, a collection of medical marijuana users came together and sued the DEA and U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft in a federal district court. The two leading individuals, Angel Raich and Diane Monson sued the federal government on the grounds of declaratory relief and injunction in October of 2002 to stop the government from violating their right to produce and use medical marijuana. Attorney Randy Barnett defended

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