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Congress, Controlled Substances, And Physician-Assisted Suicide: Elephants In Mouseholes, George J. Annas
Congress, Controlled Substances, And Physician-Assisted Suicide: Elephants In Mouseholes, George J. Annas
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The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Gonzales v. Oregon to reject the U.S. attorney general's authority to prohibit physicians in Oregon from prescribing Schedule II drugs for their terminally ill patients to commit suicide can seem paradoxical and confusing. How is it that California cannot permit the patients of physicians who recommend marijuana, a Schedule I drug, to possess legally and use marijuana that they may need to survive, but Oregon can legally permit physicians to prescribe Schedule II drugs and patients to possess and use such drugs to end their lives?