The operator of the San Jose cannabis club was hauled into court recently for allegedly selling marijuana without a valid medical recommendation after local police raided the club. That club may soon close. The U.S. Attorney's Office recently filed a civil suit to close down six cannabis clubs in Northern California. And I'd like to emphasize that. Under our system of federalism laws by Congress cannot be overridden or supplanted by state law.
Federal laws continues to prohibit the distribution of marijuana at the cannabis clubs.
But a pack of attorneys for the clubs contend there are conflicting constitutional issues. William Panzer represents a buyers club in Oakland. Every American citizen enjoys what's called a substantive due process right, a fundamental constitutional right to life, to bodily integrity, to be allowed treatment for excruciating pain. The government, in essence, has taken the position that the world is flat. When all the evidence is there, the science is there, unequivocally that the world is round here, unequivocally that medical marijuana is an effective, very safe medicine for use for a number of ailments.