Finally A Constitutional Challenge To The War On Drugs?
As you all know the list of illegal drugs keeps growing because like any ‘good’ government agency the DEA is trying to expand their power base. Not satisfied for enforcing the substance bans, the drug prohibition czars have decided to go after doctors that prescribe ‘legal’ pain medications in what they have arbitrarly defined as excessive amounts. How they are qualified to determine that is anybodies guess. Well, one of the doctors in his defense against numerous indictments has taken the creative approach of challenging the constitutional legality of the specific charges in general and the entire drug war in paricular.
A favorable ruling for the doctor would put a serious crimp in this onerous drug war that has ruined the lives of some many and enriched the pockets of illegal drug distributors.Lawyers for a Haysville, Kansas, physician facing a 34-count federal indictment alleging he acted as a drug dealer in prescribing pain medications fought back last Friday, filing in federal court a motion to dismiss both the indictment and federal Controlled Substances act (CSA) as unconstitutional. Attorneys for Dr. Steven Schneider argued that federal prosecutors in Wichita improperly claimed authority over the regulation of medicine.
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