Medical Pot Users Have The Blues

But States Unlikely To Enforce Fed Laws After Supreme Court Ruling

(CBS/AP)  One of them, Angel Raich, said she uses marijuana for pain and nausea, and was smoking it she says when she heard the Supreme Court had ruled against her challenge to federal marijuana laws.

"We're ill, we're not trying to be disobedient. We're just using this medicine because it's saving our lives," Raich told CBS News Correspondent John Blackstone.

In the court's main decision, Stevens raised concerns about abuse of marijuana laws. "Our cases have taught us that there are some unscrupulous physicians who over-prescribe when it is sufficiently profitable to do so," he said.

"Absolute lie," retorted Williams, who suffers from multiple sclerosis. "And the reason why I'm saying that is because right now, the most abused drugs in this country are prescription medications like OxyContin, Vicodin and others."

Williams told Early Show co-anchor Hannah Storm the next step is for congressional and Drug Enforcement Administration action to change the laws.

"Put it in the same category as cocaine, morphine and other drugs and let doctors prescribe it," Williams said.