Few baby boomers ever dreamed they'd see the day when their parents, children, or grandparents would ask for Marijuana. Today the medical application of this common drug has been legalized by popular vote in nine states. The majority of physicians nationwide now freely admit to recommending Marijuana to their patients to relieve a variety of medical conditions from arthritis, insomnia, glaucoma, aids, chemotherapy, anorexia and chronic pain.

This week, Allan Handelman welcomes back Marijuana expert Ed Rosenthal, the man who made big news this week as a federal judge sentenced him to only one-day in jail for growing medicinal marijuana. While federal prosecutors wanted him to serve 5 years or more, the governor of California pressured the judge to give a fair sentence.

"If every judge displayed this much common sense, the government's war on sick and dying Americans could be over within weeks." Breyer, a U.S. District judge in San Francisco, ignored federal prosecutors' recommendation for a five-year term and sentenced Rosenthal to one day in jail on Wednesday for growing 100 marijuana plants. Breyer also set Rosenthal free immediately, saying he had already served the time.

Ed Rosenthal is recognized worldwide as an authority on marijuana. In his thirty-plus years as a cannabis expert, he has edited, authored, or co-authored over a dozen books, including Marijuana, The Law and You, a series of Ask Ed books on the subject of marijuana, and even a book on marijuana beer!

Because federal law prohibits medical marijuana, Breyer had refused during the trial to allow jurors to hear evidence that Rosenthal was raising the plants with the explicit approval of local health officials. Upon learning that after the trial, jurors publicly repudiated their guilty verdict and demanded that the judge spare Rosenthal from prison.

"Federal judges routinely refuse to allow jurors to hear evidence about marijuana's medical benefits, or that medical marijuana is legal under their state laws. And many terminally ill AIDS and cancer patients are wasting away in prison, where they have been prevented from using their medication.

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Also this week, Steve Kubby, former Libertarian candidate for California governor and a prime mover behind Prop 215, who uses medical marijuana to treat a rare form of adrenal cancer. "Steve was arrested when police raided his Olympic Valley, California home in 1999, and was convicted in December 2000 of two minor drug possession charges. To avoid a jail term, he moved to Canada with his wife and two young daughters,"

"Like so many others, Steve has been forced to choose between abandoning his country and dying a slow, painful death in prison." Future tragedies like these could be avoided with help from more jurors who demand the truth and more judges who are willing to buck the system as Breyer did, Crickenberger said. Steve is co-author, with Ed Rosenthal, of Why Matrijuana Should Be Legal.

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