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The Medicine Shoppe V. Drug Enforcement Adminstration, Jeffrey C. Grass Jd, Ms, Aclm

Jeffrey C. Grass JD, MS, ACLM

The DEA has revoked The Medicine Shoppe’s DEA COR on the grounds that it has “violated its corresponding responsibility to ensure that a prescription for a controlled substance is issued for a legitimate medical purpose.” The principle that state governments bear the primary responsibility for evaluating professional medical and pharmacy licenses follows from our concept of federalism, which requires that state lawmakers, not the federal government, are "the primary regulators of professional [medical] conduct."