Randy E. Barnett, JD - Medical Marijuana

Name:	Randy E. Barnett, JD
Title:	The Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at the Georgetown University Law Center
Position:	Pro to the question "Should marijuana be a medical option?"
Reasoning:	"Smoked cannabis does carry with it harms associated with it...but when people are sick and people are suffering and people are dying, they may be willing to run the risk of these long-term harms in order to get the immediate relief, the life-saving relief that cannabis has demonstrably been able to provide." Oral Arguments, Ashcroft v. Raich, U.S. Supreme Court, Nov. 29, 2004
Theoretical Expertise Ranking:	Experts PhD's and JD's (lawyers) with significant post-doctoral involvement in medical marijuana issues; judges who have presided over medical marijuana cases. [Note: Experts definition varies by site.]
Involvement and Affiliations:	The Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory, Georgetown University Law Center, 2006-present Argued the medical cannabis case of Raich v. Gonzales on remand in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, 2006 Argued the medical cannabis case of Ashcroft v. Raich in the U.S Supreme Court, 2004 Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, Washington, D.C. Senior Fellow, Goldwater Institute, Phoenix, Arizona Formerly the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law Former Legal Affairs Contributor for WBEZ (NPR), Chicago Former Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School and Northwestern University Former Criminal Prosecutor, Cook County State's Attorney's Office, Chicago Recipient, The Lysander Spooner Book Award for the best book on liberty, 2004 Recipient, Ralph Gregory Elliot Book Award, 1998
Education:	JD, Harvard Law School BA, Northwestern University
Contact Info:	Phone: 202-662-9936 Fax: None found Email: rb325@law.georgetown.edu Website: www.randybarnett.com
Select Publications:	Perspectives on Contract Law, 2005 Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty, 2004 Contracts Cases and Doctrine, 2003 The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law, 1998
Other:	None found