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No. 03-1454: Ashcroft v. Raich - Petition |
 | | The court found that the "intrastate, noncommercial cultivation, possession and use of marijuana for personal medical purposes on the advice of a physician" "constitutes a separate and distinct class of activities" that is beyond Congress's power to regulate under the Commerce Clause. |
 | | Regulation of intrastate possession, manufacture, and distribution of any controlled substance, including marijuana, is an integral and essential part of Congress's comprehensive regulation of the interstate possession, manufacture, and distribution of such substances generally, which unquestionably take place in large part in interstate commerce and categorically affects interstate commerce. |
 | | The intrastate manufacture, possession, and free distribution of marijuana for purported medical purposes also significantly interferes with the CSA's purpose to establish a national, comprehensive, uniform -and closed-statutory scheme to prevent the abuse and diversion of controlled substances. |
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