I really feel for this guy. I do. There's no question he got shafted big-time by an overzealous prosecuter.

Nevertheless, the Supreme Court made the correct decision when they announced their verdict. The question was not whether medical marijuana should be legal - which I clearly think it should. The issue was the legality of medical marijuana users being prosecuted under federal law even when states' laws permit such use. Being that federal law will always trump state law, the Court had no choice but to render the decision they made. Any other decision would've been the judiciary making a legislative action.

Personally, I think headlines such as "Supreme Court murders California man" do more harm than good to the legalization movement. It puts a bad face on things and casts an inappropriate shadow on the good we are trying to accomplish.