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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 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]

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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. ^ Lee, Martin A. (2012). Smoke signals : a social history of marijuana : medical, recreational, and scientific (1st Scribner hardcover ed.). New York: Scribner. p. 319. ISBN 978-1-4391-0260-2. OCLC 759913570.
  3. ^ Drugs in American society : an encyclopedia of history, politics, culture, and the law. Nancy E. Marion, Willard M. Oliver. Santa Barbara, California. 2015. p. 783. ISBN 978-1-61069-595-4. OCLC 881440055.((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  4. ^ Lee 2012, 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
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