California resumes medical marijuana ID card trial program

marijuana, in a DEA photo

California's Department of Health Services has resumed the medical marijuana ID trial program that it suspended following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision, in Gonzales v. Raich, that Congress' constitutional right to regulate interstate commerce overrides the right of California to exempt medical users of marijuana from federal criminal prosecution.

Click on the title of this post to listen to Ken August, spokesperson for the California Department of Health Services, talk about the original decision to suspend the state medical marijuana ID trial program.

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