On the 31st of January a complaint was filed by myself, and in behalf of other qualified medical marijuana patients, in El Dorado County Superior court regarding the county's ban on retail sales of medical marijuana. The county has continued to proport the idea that MMCA is in violation of federal law, without having ever produced an answerable complaint regarding such a voilation, much less an actual conviction of any federal law. Because the county insists on speaking of federal violations in a California Superior Court and the local judges listen, then I will answer the federal complaints levied by the county against MMCA with an argument of medical necessity for my medical marijuana needs. As a glaucoma patient, my arguments will parallel that of Robert Randall, the father of the medical marijuana movement, and his lawsuit that forced the United States Government to grow, process, and distribute medical marijuana to him (and others) for the rest of his life.

My argument for medical necessity was augmented this past January, when the CA DOJ deposited me (on a non-marijuana matter) in the El Dorado County Jail. Within 24 hours of my forced abstinence from medical marijuana, I was admitted to the jail hospital for blood pressure of 210/149 (despite the three horse-pills they fed me) but I wasn't clear if the jail doctor, he sarcastically ID'd himself as "Dr. Spock", was aware of the basics of glaucoma diagnosis and treatment.  That doesn't bode well for someone like me, with high IOP. My pressures were in the 50's (mm of hg) when I was bailed after 28hrs.

Stay tuned, we'll get the paperwork online soon. -Matt