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City representatives could not immediately be reached for comment.
In a telephone interview, Schwartz said that marijuana made his client’s pain manageable without any side effects and her quality of life improved significantly.
“She takes no pain medication now other than the medical marijuana,” he said. “She was nearing the end.”
The California Compassionate Use Act, also known as Proposition 215, which was approved by voters in 1996, allows for the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.
Patients can legally use marijuana with permission from doctors under that law. However, federal law still forbids marijuana possession in most cases, which officials and lawyers say creates conflicts.
Traudt’s suit is “Based on the Compassionate Use Act but also based on the California Constitution, which grants everyone the right to life and safety,” her attorney said. “In Malinda’s case life requires medicine and the city of Dana Point is interfering with that … When the government is interfering or attempting to interfere, all of that gives us standing.”
At her home in San Clemente on Wednesday, Shelly White fed her daughter peanut butter balls made with hash butter and coated with chocolate when she complained of pain.
White said she lives in fear that the dispensary that is helping her child will be shut down.
