Because marijuana use is illegal under federal law (with a few rare exceptions), federal courts generally dont allow evidence that the drug may have been taken as medicine -- even when medical marijuana is permitted by state law, as it has been in Washington since 1998. The jury will never hear that there was a sign [at the grow site] for medical marijuana, lawyer Douglas D. Phelps, who represents Rolland Gregg, said during Mondays hearing. Theyll never hear that the defendants had a use for the marijuana that was medicinal. Theyll never hear how they intended to use the crop, the purposes that they would use it for or that the doctors believed that the amounts they were growing was consistent with their medical necessity.
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 23:13:40 +0000
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