At StoptheDrugWar.org, a pro drug website, there is a very interesting article about the use of prescription medical marijuana by parolees and probationers. It is interesting because it has ramafications on what a drug based on a herb can be called. In this case the herb is marijuana and the synthetic prescription drug is Marional (also sometimes called the “marijuana pill” even though technically that is not what it is at all.

The case grew out of an instance with a man named Timothy Nelson who grew the marijuana for a health condition and then was banned from smoking it by prescription as part of his jail sentence. He was only allowed to smoke a synthetic version of marijuana called Marinol.

Tim Nelson’s lawyers appealed and it went to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court found that the ruling by the first judge clearly violated the desires of all the voters in Montana who had voted that a qualifying patient with a valid registry and I.D. be legally allowed to grow and consume marijuana in legal amounts.