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HIGH COURT HAS GONE POTTY.(Commentary/Editorial)(Column)

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From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
Date: 20050607
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Byline: Paul Campos

The life of the law, Oliver Wendell Holmes famously remarked, has not been logic but experience.

When it comes to marijuana, the life of the law has been neither logic nor experience, but rather sheer unadulterated craziness. Another chapter in that disgraceful history was written this week, when the Supreme Court refused to overturn a federal law ordering the national government to ignore state laws that allow doctors to prescribe marijuana for their patients.

The six justices who voted to uphold the law did so on the basis of this argument: ...

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