Research shows that marijuana has proven medical benefits such as in the case United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers'(3) Co. The U.S. argued that it was the Oakland Cannabis Buyers’ Co that violated the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 by distributing medical marijuana to ill patients with no other medicine allowing the type of relief presented. “In short, OCBC presented evidence that there is a class of people with serious medical conditions for whom the use of cannabis is necessary in order to treat or alleviate those conditions or their symptoms; who will suffer serious harm if they are denied cannabis; and for whom there is no legal alternative to cannabis for the effective treatment of their medical conditions
