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Big Win for the Little Guys

Good news for medical marijuana patients. The Wo/Men's Alliance asked US District Judge Jeremy Fogel to issue an injunction preventing future raids by federal agents on their group that grows and provides the herb to the chronic and terminally ill. In the first interpretation of the recent 9th Circuit decision, ruling such prosecutions unconstitutional if the plant remains within the confines of a state that has legalized its use, Judge Fogel did indeed enjoin the feds from further harassment and prosecution.

Needless to say the Alliance is thrilled.

The group's director, Valerie Corral, said the group had been receiving and growing marijuana in secret since the raid out of fear of being prosecuted. But with Fogel's decision, the group plans on immediately planting hundreds of plants at Corral's one-acre property.

"You better believe it we're gonna plant," said Corral, who uses marijuana to alleviate epileptic seizures.

Meanwhile a Justice Department spokesman, obviously disappointed, said the government was reviewing the decision.

I say, "What's to review?" The courts have ruled, the people's will is clear and it's time for our government to stop wasting our tax dollars tilting at windmills. Let the feds earn their keep by going out to solve some real crimes and leave the sick and dying in peace.