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I don't believe that Federal Law shoudl trump state laws, unless there is an inter-state facet to the issue... and in this case, there is not.
I remember reading an article about federal agents arresting a guy for his marijuana use, citing it was against federal law even if not against state law. The guy was 76 or something, cancer patient, been confined to a wheelchair for the past decade or so.
Now tell me- exactly WHO or WHAT is the government trying to protect by arresting people such as that? There's no "common good" they're looking out for by handcuffing a living-in-constant-agonizing-pain old man in a wheelchair. Also, from the article, how can you define a crime as involving the legitimate medicinal use of a drug by a woman who has a brain tumor and scoliosis and just wants to live without excrutiating pain.
It's too bad they're not comatose, because THEN they'd be looked after. /schiavo dig.
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