Medical pot advocate dropping legal appeals
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The medical marijuana patient who took her case to the U.S. Supreme Court announced Thursday that she is dropping further legal appeals.
Angel Raich, 41, a mother of two from Oakland who smokes cannabis for a variety of ills, including a brain tumor, said the battle should now move from the courts to Congress. “I’m not a quitter, so this was a hard decision. But I’ve lost all faith in the judicial system,” said Raich, who was never arrested for her medical pot use but sought to bar the U.S. government from any future prosecution.
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