Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2006
ISSN
0028-4793
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
Language
en-US
Abstract
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Gonzales v. Oregon to reject the U.S. attorney general's authority to prohibit physicians in Oregon from prescribing Schedule II drugs for their terminally ill patients to commit suicide can seem paradoxical and confusing. How is it that California cannot permit the patients of physicians who recommend marijuana, a Schedule I drug, to possess legally and use marijuana that they may need to survive, but Oregon can legally permit physicians to prescribe Schedule II drugs and patients to possess and use such drugs to end their lives?
Recommended Citation
George J. Annas,
Congress, Controlled Substances, and Physician-Assisted Suicide: Elephants in Mouseholes
,
in
354
New England Journal of Medicine
1079
(2006).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/1288
Comments
From The New England Journal of Medicine, George J. Annas, Congress, Controlled Substances, and Physician-Assisted Suicide: Elephants in Mouseholes, Volume 354, Page 1079 Copyright ©(2006) Massachusetts Medical Society. Reprinted with permission.