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Federal Judge Dismisses Former NFL Player’s Marijuana Decriminalization Suit

Pharmacy Law Blog

Washington, a former Jets football player, is hoping to force the hand of Congress and the White House by arguing that current federal policy is unconstitutional given marijuana’s health benefits. In 2015 there were zero. Compare this to legal, prescription opiods and other similar drugs–over 19,000 deaths in 2015.

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Logical Contradiction Doctrine:  Buckman for Textualists

Drug & Device Law

341 (2001), with the rejection of the so-called “purposes and objectives” prong of implied preemption by the most conservative justices (at least in terms of federalism) on the Court. For those of you accessing the Blog on mobile devices, this post may be hard to read. Plaintiffs Legal Committee , 531 U.S. Maretta , 569 U.S.

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Federal Preemption of State Attempts To Ban FDA-Approved Abortion Drugs After Dobbs

Drug & Device Law

constitutes a ‘stop-selling’ theory, which courts have consistently found to be preempted by federal law.” A couple of other cases we’ve blogged about also bear on state-law attempts to ban FDA-approved products. 2015 WL 4514510 (S.D. July 24, 2015). Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , 3d 281 (6th Cir.

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