Wisconsin court recognizes California law

This is good news. Although it won't set any precedents, a Wisconsin circuit court judge dismissed criminal charges against a woman based on her California prescription for the medicine. The DA was agog.

I've been doing this for 17 years and this is the first such prescription I've seen," said Assistant District Attorney Kevin Calkins, the prosecutor in the case.

Nothing happens overnight but every such common sense ruling from any bench takes us a step closer to real drug policy reform. Some days it looks like we're winning this war.