Its back underground just like the old speak easy's during the early days way back then. Its another example of the Fed's dictating how people should live their lives. On the Fed level its up to the politicians but on the State Level its up to the voters to decide. Its really 2 separate Governments within the same country.

Judge Saundra Armstrong is splitting hairs when she says Congress does not recognize medicinal value of marijuana. In 2001, the US Dept. of Health & Human Services filed an application for a patent on cannabinoids, the main psychoactive ingredient in the whole marijuana plant.

On Oct. 7, 2003, the US Patent Office granted patent #6,630,507 to the Department or its assignees on Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants.

According to the patent abstract:
"Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties.... This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia. Nonpsychoactive cannabinoids, such as cannabidoil, are particularly advantageous to use because they avoid toxicity that is encountered with psychoactive cannabinoids at high doses useful in the method of the present invention. A particular disclosed class of cannabinoids [is found to be] useful as neuroprotective antioxidants...."