[summer]

If the state stays out of it too, then -- who decides? Are you saying you belive it's a very personal decision of the person who is ill and no one else?

[anniegetyourgun]

No one else. Why get the power of the state involved?

Ashcroft is only enforcing the law on controlled substances, by reversing Reno's exemption for one state to use them in killing. If the federal law is going to have meaning, he had to reverse her single exception. The DOJ can't say to CA that docs can't prescribe pot, but Oregon can prescribe lethal injections. It doesn't make sense. The DOJ will prevail in this case - on the basis of the law. And when it does - people in Oregon can still off themselves by whatever means they can get their hands on themselves.