Federal Court in CA rules Feds May Not Interfere with State's Medical Marijuana Laws

I will admit that this is out of jurisdiction for the State of Texas, but it is on the edge of the battlefront as far as medical marijuana is concerned. For the benefit of those not versed in the hoopla, there are currently 12 states who have laws permitting medical use of marijuana (Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington). These laws are in direct conflict with federal law, which states that there is no currenly accepted medical use for pot, and that it is absolutely a prohibited substance. In states where medical marijuana is more prevalent, and perhaps, obvious, the federal government and DEA have gone to great efforts to squash the state provisions, raiding dispensaries, making federal arrests, etc. The essence, and significance of U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel's decision, had to do with how far the federal agencies can go in a systemic attempt to nullify the state's voter supported laws. A more local account of the story is here. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/21/BAU412FCB9.DTL