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Quotation from Linder v. United States by Supreme Court of the United States
“They are diseased and proper subjects for such treatment, and we cannot possibly conclude that a physician acted improperly or unwisely or for other than medical purposes solely because he has dispensed to one of them in the ordinary course and in good faith, four small tablets of morphine or cocaine for relief of conditions incident to addiction.”
Linder v. United States, Opinion of the Court (Justice McReynolds) (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource))
Justice McReynolds describes persons addicted to drugs as fit subjects for medical treatment and declines to infer wrongdoing from Linder's small dose.
Citation: "They are diseased and proper subjects for such treatment, and we cannot possibly conclude that a physician acted improperly or unwisely or for other than medical purposes solely because he has dispensed to one of them in the ordinary course and in good faith, four small tablets of morphine or cocaine for relief of conditions incident to addiction." — Supreme Court of the United States, Linder v. United States, Opinion of the Court (Justice McReynolds) (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource)). (id linder-v-united-states-q2)
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