Article: Follow state law, go directly to jail: medical marijuana makes conservatives forget federalism.(Column)

WHEN OWEN BECK was 17, doctors amputated his right leg to stop the spread of bone cancer. His parents, desperate to find a drug that would relieve their son's excruciating phantom limb pain, brought him to Charlie Lynch's medical marijuana dispensary in Morro Bay, California, carrying a recommendation from a Stanford oncologist. The marijuana not only eased the pain but alleviated the nausea caused by chemotherapy.

Called to testify as a character witness at Lynch's federal marijuana trial in July, Beck did not get far. When he mentioned his cancer, U.S. District Judge George Wu cut him off. Wu decreed that there would be no talk of the symptoms cannabis ...

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