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Health and Safety Code – HSC 11357 – 11362.9 A compendium of California marijuana definitions and statutory laws related to cannabis hemp / marijuana as they were listed from 1976 to 2016, when the voters […]
Proposition 215 Compassionate Use of Medical Marijuana Act Passed as a statutory initiative by California voters in November 1996, Proposition 215 was the first effective medical marijuana law in the nation. The CUA allows a […]
Medical Marijuana Program Act, State Patient ID System, Safe Harbor, Collective Defense (repealed in MMRSA) Safe Access Now sees many beneficial sections in the bill, including that it empowers communities to adopt scientific guidelines. Fortunately, […]
Kirby v Fresno “We conclude that the provision in the ordinance that classifies the cultivation of medical marijuana as a misdemeanor is preempted by California’s extensive statutory scheme addressing crimes, defenses and immunities relating to […]
Maral, et al., v Live Oak “Accordingly, we conclude the CUA [Proposition 215] and MMP [SB 420] do not preempt a city’s police power to prohibit the cultivation of all marijuana within that city. ” […]
Gonzalez v. Raich The text of the 2005 US Supreme Court decision reversing the 2003 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that the Interstate Commerce Clause of the US Constitution does not reach medical marijuana […]
People v. Kelly: Voters allowed patients any reasonable amount of cannabis “Although the jury was properly instructed that defendant could possess an amount of marijuana reasonably related to his current medical needs, the prosecutor improperly […]
People v. Trippet “The rule should be that the quantity possessed by the patient or the primary caregiver, and the form and manner in which it is possessed, should be reasonably related to the patient’s […]
Lungren v. Peron (1997): Prop 215 did not legalize sales or dispensaries. “Although the sale and distribution of marijuana remain as criminal offenses under section 11360, bona fide primary caregivers for section 11362.5 patients […]
People v. Mower “We conclude that, under general principles of California law, the burden of proof as to the facts underlying the section 11362.5(d) defense may, and should, be allocated to a defendant, but the […]