Robert Raich

Robert Raich is a California attorney. He served as legal counsel in the only two medical cannabis cases heard by the United States Supreme Court: United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative in 2001 and Gonzales v. Raich in 2005.[1] His spouse at the time, Angel Raich, was a party in the 2005 case.[2][3] In 1995, he became one of the founders of California Proposition 215, the initiative that created the first medical cannabis framework in the United States.[4] Raich has been an instructor at Oaksterdam University,[5][1] where he teaches "how to create defenses against possible hostile action by the government" for students of the cannabis industry.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 Geluardi 2016, p. 138.
  2. ↑ Lee 2013, p. 319.
  3. ↑ Marion & Oliver 2014, p. 783.
  4. ↑ Lee 2013, p. 239.
  5. ↑ Instructor biography, Oaksterdam University, retrieved 2017-05-31
  6. ↑ Sara Solovitch (November 15, 2015), "Business is booming at the Harvard of pot in California", The Washington Post

Sources

  • Geluardi, J. (2016). Cannabiz: The Explosive Rise of the Medical Marijuana Industry. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-317-26283-1.
  • Lee, M.A. (2013). Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana - Medical, Recreational and Scientific. Scribner. ISBN 978-1-4391-0261-9.
  • Marion, N.E.; Oliver, W.M. (2014). Drugs in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law [3 volumes]. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-61069-596-1.
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