The Right Not To Be In Pain
The Feds vs. Ed Rosenthal

Patricia holds card number 34 in her local cannabis buyers' club. She was one of the earliest beneficiaries of the Compassionate Use Act, passed by the body politic of California in 1996. Later this month, on January 22 in US District Court in San Francisco, the competing desires of the body politic of California and the US federal government will meet before a jury, in a clash that could plunge Patricia and all the millions of others in chronic pain back into all the agonies they once endured. It could send also send a legendary figure, Ed Rosenthal, to prison for twenty years.
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