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Robert Raich

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Robert Raich is an American 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 2004.[1] His spouse at the time, Angel Raich, was a party in the 2005 case.[2]: 319 [3][4]: 72 [5]: 69  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.[2]: 239  Raich has been an instructor at Oaksterdam University,[6][1] where he teaches "how to create defenses against possible hostile action by the government" for students of the cannabis industry.[7]

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  1. ^ a b Geluardi, John (2010). Cannabiz: The Explosive Rise of the Medical Marijuana Industry. Sausalito, CA: Polipoint Press. p. 138. ISBN 978-1-317-26283-1. OCLC 1076772031.
  2. ^ a b Lee, Martin A. (2012). Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana—Medical, Recreational, and Scientific (1st Scribner hardcover ed.). New York: Scribner. ISBN 978-1-4391-0260-2. OCLC 759913570.
  3. ^ Marion, Nancy E.; Oliver, Willard M., eds. (2015). Drugs in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law. Santa Barbara, California. p. 783. ISBN 978-1-61069-595-4. OCLC 881440055.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ Hecht, Peter (2014). Weed Land: Inside America's Marijuana Epicenter and How Pot Went Legit. ISBN 978-0-520-27543-0.
  5. ^ Thapar, Amul (2023). "The Professor and the Patient: Gonzales v. Raich". The People's Justice: Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional Stories That Define Him. pp. 67–86. ISBN 978-1-68451-452-6.
  6. ^ "Robert Raich, Esq". Oaksterdam University. Archived from the original on 2023-05-30.
  7. ^ Sara Solovitch (November 15, 2015), "Business is booming at the Harvard of pot in California", The Washington Post
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