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Article: ROUND TWO BEGINS IN LEGAL FIGHT TO FORCE FEDS TO HONOR STATES' MEDICAL MARIJUANA LAWS

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January 31, 2006
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The American Civil Liberties Union issued the following news release:

The city of Santa Cruz, California and a collective of Santa Cruz medical marijuana patients today asked a federal court to approve the city's plan to provide medical marijuana directly to patients. The American Civil Liberties Union, Bingham McCutchen LLP, the Drug Policy Alliance and others filed legal documents setting out new claims based on an ordinance recently enacted by the Santa Cruz City Council that establishes the provision of medical marijuana as an official city government function. The legal papers were filed in County of Santa Cruz v. Gonzales.

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