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 3o Specious allegations of marijuanaes
 harm (cancer, memo_, hard drug
 gateway) provide no rational basis
 for denying proven relief to a
 terminally=ill patient ..... lO
 4. There is no nation-wide uniformity
 in drug scheduling, to rationally
 support the withholding of
 effective medicine from a
 terminally-ill patient ..... 12 :
 C. The Emperor Wears No C_otbe_s; There i_s _:
 No Rational Basis for 9envinq Palliative
 Marijuana to th9 Term_aliy-ill . . . 14
 IV. CONCLUSION ................ 16
 TABLE OF AUTHORiTIES
 CASES
 City of Cleburne v_ Cleburne Li_nq Center, Inc.,
 473 UoS. 432, 448_ 105 SoCt® 3249, 87 L.Ed.2d 313
 (1985) ..................... 5
 Curzan Vo Diro, Moo Dept. of Health, 497 U.S. 261
 (1990) ..................... 12
 Compassion in Dyinq vo Washinqtcn, 79 F.3d 790 (9
 Cir. 1996, en bane) .............. 12
 Idaho v. Hastingss, 801 P.2d 563 (1990) ..... 14
 Jenks v. Florida, 582 So.2d 676 (1991) ..... 14
 Quill M- Vacco, 80 F°3d 716 (2 Cir. 1996) . . ° 12
 State v° Col e_ 74 Wn.App. 571_ 578, rev. den. 125
 Wn.2d 1012f 874 P_2d 878 (1994) ........ 13
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