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Published online 7 June 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050606-6

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Marijuana: the dope

News@nature.com rounds up the facts after the US Supreme Court ruling against medical marijuana.

The Supreme Court of the United States ruled on 6 June that medical use of marijuana is illegal under federal law, even though 11 individual states allow it. The judgement is the result of an appeal by Bush's government over a case against two women in California who use the drug medicinally.

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