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Health Care & Hospital Law

Sep. 9, 2000

Judge Rules Discussing Pot Can't Be Basis for License Revocation

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Francisco Thursday permanently barred the federal government from revoking prescription-writing privileges of doctors who recommend that their patients use marijuana to ease a variety of medical conditions.

By Dennis Pfaff
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Francisco Thursday permanently barred the federal government from revoking prescription-writing privileges of doctors who recommend that their patients use marijuana to ease a variety of medical conditions.
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