Medical pot laws survive challenge

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Medical pot laws survive challenge

The Supreme Court cleared the way Tuesday for state laws allowing ill patients to smoke marijuana if a doctor recommends it.

JUSTICES TURNED down the Bush administration’s request to consider whether the federal government can punish doctors for recommending or perhaps even talking about the benefits of the drug to sick patients. An appeals court said they cannot be punished.

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Keith Vines, a prosecutor in San Francisco who used marijuana to overcome HIV-related illnesses, was among those who challenged a policy, put in place during the Clinton administration. That policy requires the revocation of federal prescription licenses of doctors who recommend marijuana.

“If the government is zipping them up, and we’re not being told about options, that’s negligence,” Vines said.
Policy supporters contend that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration must be allowed to protect the public.

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http://www.msnbc.com/news/980093.asp?0cv=CA01

[acmavm]

1. A story about this will be on the Leher New Report on PBS in a few

minutes.

What do you think Asscroft is thinking right now? I guess they're going to have to recall the Supreme Court. It seems they aren't towing the line anymore.

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2. and another piece of plaster falls off the wall

of the house built by a law where the arguement was that it made black men have sex with white women.