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 2004.
[1]: 138 His spouse at the time, Angel Raich, was a party in the latter case.
[2]: 319 [3]: 783 [4]: 72 [5]: 69 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.
[2]: 239 Raich has been an instructor at Oaksterdam University,[6][1]: 138 where he teaches "how to create defenses against possible hostile action by the government" for students of the cannabis industry.