The Press Notices the Charles Lynch Trial

by Bruce Mirken
July 27, 2008

Saturday’s Los Angeles Times does a pretty good story on this unfolding medical marijuana case, focusing on the bizarre dance defense attorneys must do to help the jury understand what’s really going on, having been barred from using the phrase “medical marijuana” — which is, of course, a nonexistent concept under federal law.

Tagged with: California and DEA and dispensaries and Medical Marijuana and patients by the author

1 comment

1 mark godfrey { 07.30.08 at 5:01 pm }: I pray the jury does the right thing.

I have read that Prohibition I (the alcohol one) ended in large part because juries stopped convicting because of the inherent nonsense of it all.

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