Justices Wonât Hear Appeal on Drugs for Terminally Ill
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The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of a case that ruled that terminally ill patients do not have a constitutional right to try drugs that have not received federal approval.
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The latest battle in the great War on Drugs showed up in the Supreme Court on Monday, with the feds arguing that if sick or dying people are allowed to use homegrown marijuana for their pain, the price on the streets will go down.
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Two Northern California women who say medical marijuana is their only shield from a life of agony take their case to the US Supreme Court on Monday in a clash between federal power to regulate drug use and a state&#39;s authority to determine medical care for
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The US Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments over whether states can permit the seriously ill to buy or grow marijuana to ease their pain.
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Justices will listen to oral arguments on whether the federal government can take action against those who use homegrown marijuana for medicinal reasons within states where it is legal to do so.
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The Bush administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to block the nation's only law allowing doctors to help terminally ill patients die more quickly.
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Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in October, will again not be present when the Supreme Court reconvenes to hear oral arguments on Monday.
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A federal appeals court has rejected the Bush administration&#39;s request for a new hearing on Attorney General John Ashcroft&#39;s attempt to shut down Oregon&#39;s assisted-suicide law by punishing doctors who prescribe lethal drugs to terminally ill patients.
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The Supreme Court Monday jumped into the fight over the use of illegal drugs for health purposes, as the justices debated whether allowing medical marijuana use
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Several U.S. Supreme Court justices  expressed reservations on Monday about allowing medical  marijuana for sick patients whose doctors have recommended they  smoke it for pain.
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More than two-thirds of Americans believe there are circumstances in which a patient should be allowed to die, but they are closely divided on whether it should be legal for a doctor to help terminally ill patients end their own lives by prescribing fatal drugs, a new AP-Ipsos poll finds.
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The justices decline to rule on a lower court decision that says terminally ill patients have no constitutional right to be treated with experimental drugs that have not been thoroughly tested, effectively letting the ruling stand.
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THE HIGH COURT HEARD ARGUMENTS THIS MORNING ON WHETHER SICK PEOPLE IN ELEVEN STATES THAT ALLOW MEDICAL MARIJUANA CAN HAVE THEIR POT - EVEN THOUGH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SAYS IT&#39;S ILLEGAL.
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The Supreme Court appeared divided Monday over whether the drugs commonly injected to execute prisoners risk causing excruciating pain in violation of the Constitution.
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The Bush administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to block the nation&#39;s only law allowing doctors to help terminally ill patients die more quickly.
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The Supreme Court refused on Monday to step in and keep a severely brain-damaged woman hooked to a feeding tube, all but ending a long-running right-to-die battle pitting her husband against her parents.
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The Supreme Court appeared hesitant Monday to endorse medical marijuana for patients who have a doctor's recommendation.