Pharmaceutical Profits Over Life

A federal appeals court upheld the U.S. government's authority Wednesday to prosecute medical marijuana patients in California, but left open the possibility that a gravely ill patient could defend against criminal charges by showing that marijuana was her only shield against excruciating pain or death.

[Angel] Raich, 41, has used marijuana since 1997, taking it every two hours to combat the pain of scoliosis, endometriosis, seizures and a life-threatening wasting syndrome. Other drugs have proven painful and ineffectual, and her doctor says she would die in agony without marijuana.

Full article, SF Chronicle, March 15, 2007

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The pharmaceutical drug cartel is vehemently opposed to anything that would compete with its toxic products that could be created by consumers.

Thus, the lapdogs in the US Government argued that Angel Raich must suffer, and even die, in order to protect the profits of the Pharmaceutical Overlords.

Apparently, the Court forgot that laws must bear a "Rational Relationship" with a reasonable governmental objective. The torture and death of Angel Raich does nothing to protect the public, and is not a reasonable goal of government.

The Court also ignored the fact that one may not be deprived of life without Due Process Of Law. A rapist-murderer of a child, caught in the act on live television, would be accorded the full panoply of Due Process, while Angel Raich is told to go away and die.

TLC