The U.S. Institute of Medicine (IOM) found cannabis to give relief to people with conditions like Glaucoma, Multiple Sclerosis (MS), and AIDS. While other medications add to the patients suffering with severe pain, nausea, vomiting and many more; Cannabis help alleviate that pain. With this new finding in medical research, California passed the Compassionate Use Act in 1996. This act allowed any seriously ill person the right to grow and use cannabis if a doctor prescribed him herbal treatment. The persons caregiver is also given the right to grow cannabis for the patient. It also allowed those seriously ill people to avoid prosecution. In 1998 the Supreme Court began to question the Compassionate Use Act and sued Oakland Cannabis Buyers Cooperative
