Anyone want to read some good news?

More great news again!

Down for rejoicing but tempered when I heard that this case was headed for the US Supreme Court for potential review. Actually that could be a good thing. Pair that with the US patent office giving out a patent for exclusive rights and we might actually see Federal medicinal go through?
-MPP

p.s.
speaking of precedent, the Judge in the Big Daddy's case was quoted as saying he would re-write his opinion based on this ruling in the next week or so, let's hope he remembers.

That is great news need more of this

Lumping this one in here...http://www.medpagetoday.com/PainManagement/PainManagement/30541By*Emily P. Walker, Washington Correspondent, MedPage TodayPublished: January 06, 2012A federal judge has thrown out Arizona governor Jan Brewer's complaint against the state's medical marijuana law.The law, passed in 2010, created a system of marijuana dispensaries that are regulated by the state's health department. Patients are banned from growing their own marijuana if they live within a 25-mile radius of a dispensary.Brewer and the state's attorney general filed the lawsuit just days before the state was scheduled to accept applications from potential dispensary operators. The suit asked for a judgment on whether state officials who administer Arizona's medical marijuana programs could be at risk for federal prosecution, since marijuana is illegal under federal law.U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton of Arizona on Wednesday dismissed the complaint, ruling that the Arizona officials failed to show that an imminent threat of prosecution exists for state employees, or that state employees in any of the 16 states with medical marijuana laws have faced prosecution for violating federal laws that make marijuana use and dispensing illegal.Recently, federal authorities in California began cracking down on the state's medical marijuana industry, but they are targeting those who are dispensing the drug illegally, and have said those who need marijuana for medical purposes -- such as to help ease the effects of cancer or AIDS -- will still be able to get it.Even if the threat of prosecution for state employees in Arizona were imminent, Brewer and the other plaintiffs in the case -- the director of the Arizona Department of Health Services and the director of the Arizona Department of Public Safety -- didn't show they would suffer direct harm or immediate hardship if the case wasn't immediately decided, Bolton wrote, so the case is "not appropriate for judicial review."Matthew Benson, director of communications for Brewer's office, called the ruling a disappointment."What this federal court has essentially said is, it won't hear the state's lawsuit until a state employee is prosecuted or notified that they imminently face federal prosecution for their part in administering Proposition 203," he said in an email to MedPage Today.The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) praised the decision."It is unconscionable for Governor Brewer to continue to force very sick people to needlessly suffer by stripping them of the legal avenue through which to obtain their vital medicine," Ezekiel Edwards, director of the ACLU Criminal Law Reform Project, said in a press release. "[The] ruling underscores the need for state officials to stop playing politics and implement the law as approved by a majority of Arizona voters so that thousands of patients can access the medicine their doctors believe is most effective for them."In addition to Arizona, 15 other states have medical marijuana laws -- Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. Medical marijuana also is legal District of Columbia.