United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative

MEMORANDUM **

The Defendants appeal the district court’s order permanently enjoining the defendants from distributing or manufacturing marijuana and conducting like activities pursuant to the California Compassionate Use Act of 1996. We affirm. Because the parties are familiar with the factual and procedural history of this case, we need not recount it here.

I

The district court properly concluded that the placement of marijuana in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act satisfies rational basis review. The rational basis standard is a familiar one: courts review challenged legislation with the presumption that it will be found valid unless it bears no rational relationship to a legitimate legislative purpose. See, e.g., Williamson v. Lee Optical, Inc., 348 U.S. 483, 485-88 , 75 S.Ct. 461 , 99 L.Ed. 563 (1955); United States v. Carolene Prods. Co., 304 U.S. 144 , 152-54, 58 S.Ct. 778 , 82 L.Ed. 1234 (1938). “[A] statutory classification that neither proceeds along suspect lines nor infringes fundamental constitutional rights must be upheld ... if there is any reasonably conceivable state of facts that could provide a rational basis for the classification.” FCC v. Beach…