Still a Long Way to Go

Some good news for a change from the War on Drugs:

The U.S. Supreme Court let stand on Tuesday a ruling that the government cannot revoke the federal prescription licenses of doctors who recommend medical marijuana to sick patients.

Without any comment, the justices rejected a Bush administration appeal of the ruling that bars the government from punishing and from even investigating a doctor’s conduct because of a recommendation that a patient use marijuana.

For people wasting away from the side effects of chemotherapy, this could be a small bit of very good news, indeed.