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	U.S. Supreme Court ruling may rejuvenate medical marijuana debate (Politics) By circletimessquare Wed Jan 18th, 2006 at 04:41:58 PM EST
	I am in no way a legal expert, nor even a legal amateur, but even my dull senses cannot find an obvious escape from the pretty direct implications of a ruling the Supreme Court made on January 17, 2006, concerning Oregon's assisted suicide laws. From MSNBC: In a stinging rebuke to the Bush administration, the US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the US attorney-general cannot use federal drug laws to try to stop the right-to-die movement. The majority in the 6-3 ruling said the federal government cannot use the federal Controlled Substances Act to stop doctors from prescribing drugs to help terminally ill patients die. The ruling is a victory for advocates of physician-assisted suicide, since it will allow individual states to legalise the practice without running into problems under federal drug laws. Could it be? Has the Supreme Court reopened the question of a state's right to prescribe drugs? To prescribe medical marijuana? Strangely enough I find agreement with the possibility from none other than Supreme Court Justice Thomas, who says pretty much exactly that in his dissenting opinion.....

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interesting debate-