Drug test: polling Congress about medical marijuana.
| Publisher | Reason Foundation |
| Publication | Reason |
| Subject | Humanities |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0048-6906 |
| Issues per Year | 11 |
| Volume | v28 |
| Issue | n11 |
| Published | 1997-04-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Nick Gillespie |
Last fall, when voters in Arizona and California passed ballot initiatives allowing doctors to prescribe currently illegal drugs, it seemed like one small step for a more humane drug policy. (See "Prescription: Drugs," February.) But in the wake of fierce - and continuing - denunciations by representatives of the federal government, the implications of the initiatives keep getting broader and broader. They raise, most notably, serious issues of federalism. Contravening federal drug laws, Arizona's Prop. 200 and California's Prop. 215 implicitly assert that drug policy is the province of...
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