Challenge
The Act's applicability in prosecuting doctors who prescribe narcotics to addicts was successfully challenged in Linder v. United States in 1925, as Justice McReynolds ruled that the federal government has no power to regulate medical practice.
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“People seek a challenge just as fire seeks to flame.”
—Chinese proverb.
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