Show B BUS BUSTING U STIN TI N G THE O 0 MARIJUANA RAP CPS a GPS a legal controversy has su surfaced aced across the nation over whether or not there is more than one variety of marijuana outlawed by state and federal statutes Most current laws name specifically only Cannabis sativa as being illegal but buts s successful u c defenses against possession charges have been made possible on the grounds that there are five separate types of marijuana Cannabis sativa Cannabis Canna Cannabis bis indica Cannabis and a fifth type native to Afghanistan A According c cording to experts once the leaves are ground up there is no way o of f te telling II in g whether marijuana is Cannabis sativa or one of the four technically technically technically cally I legal e gal types Ho However wever the I legal e gal loophole is not clear cut In a Florida case State V V. V Wilcox the defense successfully suc- suc argued that the state could not riot prove he was in p of the illegal Cannabis sativa and he was freed In a New York federal court however a similar defense was unsuccessful as the court ruled that Congress in intended tended to prohibit the use of all of marijuana Ironically Cannabis sativa is the least hallucinogenic according to botanists and was specified in inthe inthe inthe the laws primarily because it is the most common species native to the United States A spokesman for the federal Drug Enforcement Enforcement Administration DEA sai saia tJ differences between the five 1 J 1 LAY t 1 J 1 LAY t species are so slight that all marijuana should be considered one species by the DEA He did concede however that some change would have to be made in federal statutes to solve the problem Curren Currently the US government t recognizes Cannabis as a separate species As long as this does not change there is the possibility of a successful Wilcox-type Wilcox defense in possession cases Or Ora v a ys |