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ihlr-16472	Murray, Tammy R.	State Innovation in Health Care: Congress' Broad Spending Power Under a National Health Care System will Stifle State Laboratories of Democracy	2006	39	.pdf	application/pdf	17442	1153	59	The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that states are free to adopt medicinal marijuana laws so long as itis not sold, transported across state lines or used for nonmedicinal purposes.21 This ruling only applies to the western states in the Ninth Circuit's jurisdiction and has been appealed to the Supreme Court.22 On November 29,2004, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Ashcroft v. Raic~3 and reversed the Ninth Circuit and held that wholly intrastate, non-commercial cultivation, possession, and use of marijuana in accordance with state law does not place a person beyond the reach of the federal government under the Controlled Substance Act. This was the first time in history that the Controlled Substances Act was used to preempt state law.	cache/ihlr-16472.pdf	txt/ihlr-16472.txt