Document Type
Response or Comment
Publication Date
1-2003
Abstract
In several earlier columns, I suggested that judges are usually poorly placed to make good biomedical policy, not least because the law so rarely offers them direct and cogent guidance. Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit proffered a new example of this old problem. In 1996, California's voters approved Proposition 215. Its "Compassionate Use Act of 1996" provided -that a patient "who possesses or cultivates marijuana for the personal medical purposes of the patient upon the written or oral recommendation or approval of a physician" committed no crime.
Recommended Citation
Schneider, Carl E. "Going to Pot." Hastings Center Rep. 33, no. 1 (2003): 11-2.
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Comments
Reprinted with the permission of the Hastings Center Report and Wiley-Blackwell.