Ruling Striking Down Federal Policy to Revoke Prescription Privileges for Recommending Medical Marijuana Not Disturbed

Conant v. Walters, 309 F.3d 629 (9th Cir. 2002), cert. denied, Walters v. Conant, 124 S. Ct. 387 (2003)

The Supreme Court declined to review of ruling of the Ninth Circuit that held that a federal policy that threatened to revoke a physician's authority to prescribe controlled substances if the physician recommended the use of medical marijuana to a patient violated the First Amendment...

Found in DMHL Volume 23 Issue 1