No. 21-6143

Stephen Cameron Zyszkiewicz v. California

Lower Court: California
Docketed: 2021-11-01
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP
Tags: civil-rights controlled-substances-act equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment freedom-of-religion marijuana-prohibition religious-freedom state-federal-conflict
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Latest Conference: 2022-01-21 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether there is a conflict of state and federal law with regards to marijuana/hashish and/or mescaline

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED Petitioner sold marijuana ostensibly as part of a California state legal nonprofit cannabis collective and possessed mescaline, ostensibly as a member of a Native American Church, though the trial court forbid this evidence at trial. 1. Whether there is a conflict of state and federal law with regards to marijuana/ hashish and/or mescaline. 2. Whether or not was an error in forbidding evidence of a legal nonprofit medical cannabis collective and bonafide religious use of cannabis/mescaline as a member of a Native American Church. 3. Whether or not should even be considered criminal activity at all given that the Controlled Substances Act is unconstitutional, given the threat to freedom of religion, constitutional violations related to First, Fourth, Eight, Fourteenth (Equal Protection Clause). 4. Whether or not marijuana/hashish is a schedule I controlled substance (no medicinal value). . 5. Whether or not mescaline is a schedule I controlled substance (no medicinal value). . 6. Whether or not the Controlled Substances Act, the War on Drugs, and cannabis/ : mescaline prohibition are unconstitutional. :

Docket Entries

2022-01-24
Petition DENIED.
2022-01-06
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/21/2022.
2021-12-28
Application (21A276) denied by Justice Kagan.
2021-12-27
Petitioner complied with order of December 6, 2021.
2021-12-14
Application (21A276) for an extension of time within which to comply with the order of December 6, 2021, submitted to Justice Kagan.
2021-12-06
The motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is denied. Petitioner is allowed until December 27, 2021, within which to pay the docketing fee required by Rule 38(a) and to submit a petition in compliance with Rule 33.1 of the Rules of this Court.
2021-11-17
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/3/2021.
2021-11-02
Waiver of right of respondent The State of California to respond filed.
2021-10-25
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 1, 2021)

Attorneys

Stephen Cameron Zyszkiewicz
Stephen Cameron Zyszkiewicz — Petitioner
The State of California
Kari R MuellerOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent