3 November 2016
United States Law
Mr. Keating
Annotated Bibliography
McKinley, Jesse, and Eli Rosenberg. "First Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in New York Open." Http://www.nytimes.com/. The New York Times, 7 Jan. 2016. Web. 3 Nov. 2016. In January, New York joined a group of half of all states in the United States to legalize medical marijuana dispensaries. Columbia Care is the distributor and operated of eight recently opened facilities. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill in 2014 allowing for New York to enter the medical marijuana industry. “Rockefeller” drug laws cause for very punitive consequences for recreational marijuana use. E-cigarettes to vaporizers are used.
Internal Revenue Code -- Medical Marijuana -- Ninth Circuit Holds Medical Marijuana Dispensary Ineligible For Federal Tax Deductions." Harvard Law Review 129.5 (2016): 1444-1451. Academic Search Premier. Web. 3 Nov. 2016. …show more content…
In 1996, California was the first state to pass the Compassionate Use Act to legalize medical marijuana. Olive v. Commissioner and CHAMP were landmark cases. In 2004, Martin Olive opened a dispensary in San Francisco, but sold novelties and commercialized marijuana which caused controversy. Subsection 280E should be reviewed.
Kreit, Alex. “The Future of Medical Marijuana: Should the States Grow Their Own?” University of Pennsylvania Law Review, vol. 151, no. 5, 2003, pp. 1787–1826. www.jstor.org/stable/3313004.
This article focuses on how the Drug Enforcement Agency handles medical marijuana and the states’ rights to grow their own. The DEA has traditionally been oppositional. Once California passed the legalization they were increasingly skeptical.
Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo et al. “State Medical Marijuana Laws: Understanding the Laws and Their Limitations.” Journal of Public Health Policy, vol. 23, no. 4, 2002, pp. 413–439.