High crimes?

"He’s a best-selling author who’s caught in a real-life cliffhanger. Arrested, accused and convicted of high crimes, he may be writing his next chapters in prison. But the jurors who found him guilty are now feeling guilty themselves. It all centers on a growing controversy that could be headed to your state, about the law of the land, the will of the people, and what can happen when they clash. Over the years “Dateline” has interviewed many juries, but what these jurors had to say was truly remarkable."

Dateline covered the Ed Rosenthal case tonight (for background look here).  It was heartening to see a mainstream media outlet covering this story in a reasonable manner indicative of how mainstream medical marijuana as a "Good Thing"(tm) has become.  I suspect there are a lot of folks around Mr Rosenthal (if not Mr Rosenthal himself) who wouldn't mind seeing him go away for a while as a martyr for the cause.

"And with voters in more and more states contemplating medical marijuana laws like California’s, the conflict between states’ rights and federal law may grow even sharper."

Amen, hallelujah and bring-it-on!  We've got plenty of other things to spend our federal tax dollars on.