8 states side with cancer patients in psilocybin lawsuit against DEA
In a friend of the court brief filed… in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the state attorneys general say DEA’s rejection of the patients’ application was an overreach of the agency’s power… the states’ filing stops short of saying the patients are eligible to use psilocybin under Washington’s state law [for example], noting that that by law that decision should be made “by the patient with a terminal illness in consultation with the patient’s health care provider.”
“Here, dying patients seek access to promising new treatments still in the investigative process—access expressly permitted under both state and federal law—to help them live in peace,” says the brief, filed Friday by Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson (D) and joined by Mark Brnovich (R) of Arizona, Kathleen Jennings (D) of Delaware, Karl Racine (D) of Washington, D.C., Kwame Raoul (D) of Illinois, Dana Nessel (D) of Michigan, Keith Ellison (DFL) of Minnesota, David Yost (R) of Ohio and Ellen Rosenblum (D) of Oregon.
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8 states side with cancer patients in psilocybin lawsuit against DEA
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