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The Chronic 2013:
The Evolution of Popular
Culture and the Legal
Treatment of Marijuana
November 12, 2013
Owen M. Panner Inn of Court
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1906 - Pure Food and Drugs Act Requires Labeling of Medicine, Including Cannabis
Label for Piso's Cure, a cannabis-based medicine, after the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act Source: antiquecannabisbook.com (accessed Dec. 12, 2011) "[O]n 30 June 1906 President Roosevelt signed the Food and Drugs Act, known simply as the Wiley Act... The basis of the law rested on the regulation of product labeling rather than pre-market approval."
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) "FDA History - Part I," FDA website (accessed Dec. 28, 2011)
"An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes...
That for the purposes of this Act an article shall also be deemed to be misbranded... if the package fail to bear a statement on the label of the quantity or proportion of any alcohol, morphine, opium, cocaine, heroin, alpha or beta eucaine, chloroform, cannabis indica, chloral hydrate, or acetanilide, or any derivative or preparation of any such substances contained therein."
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) , National Center for Biotechnology Information website, June 30, 1906
Source: http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000026
1911 - Massachusetts Becomes First State to Outlaw Cannabis "Bolstered by Progressive Era faith in big government, the 1910s marked a high tide of prohibitionist sentiment in America. In 1914 and 1916, alcohol prohibition initiatives would make the state ballot. Meanwhile, the legislature was tackling such morals issues as prostitution, racetrack gambling, prizefighting, liquor, and oral sex. Amidst this profusion of vices, Indian hemp [aka cannabis] was but a minor afterthought… states banned cannabis in the 1910s: Massachusetts in 1911; Maine, Wyoming and Indiana in 1913; New York City in 1914; Utah and Vermont in 1915; Colorado and Nevada in 1917. As in California, these laws were passed not due to any widespread use or concern about cannabis, but as regulatory initiatives to discourage future use."
Dale Gieringer, PhD "The Forgotten Origins of Cannabis Prohibition in California," Contemporary Drug Problems, Summer 1999
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1915-1927 - 10 States Pass Marijuana Prohibition Laws "[In 1915] Utah passes state anti-marijuana law... Other states quickly followed suit with marijuana prohibition laws, including Wyoming (1915), Texas (1919), Iowa (1923), Nevada (1923), Oregon (1923), Washington (1923), Arkansas (1923), and Nebraska (1927)." The state of New York outlaws cannabis in 1927.
Drug WarRant.com "Why Is Marijuana Illegal?," Drug War Rant.com (accessed July 14, 2010)
1930s - American Pharmaceutical Firms Sell Extracts of Marijuana as Medicines
Parke-Davis cannabis tincture bottle Source: antiquecannabisbook.com (accessed Dec. 22, 2011) "As demand for marijuana-based medications accelerated, pharmaceutical firms attempted to produce consistently potent and reliable drugs from hemp. By the 1930s at least two American companies – Parke-Davis and Eli Lily – were selling standardized extracts of marijuana for use as an analgesic, an antispasmodic and sedative. Another manufacturer, Grimault & Company, marketed marijuana cigarettes as a remedy for asthma."
Janet Joy, PhD Alison Mack Marijuana as Medicine: Beyond the Controversy, 2001
May 4, 1937 - American Medical Association Opposes the Proposed Marihuana Tax Act and Supports Research on Medical Cannabis "Hearings on the proposed taxation of marihuana were held before the Committee on Ways and Means between 27 April and 4 May 1937. The last witness to be heard was Dr. William C. Woodward, legislative counsel of the American Medical Association (AMA). He announced his opposition to the bill... [and] sought to dispel any impression that
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either the AMA or enlightened medical opinion sponsored this legislation. Marihuana, he argued, was largely an unknown quantity, but might have important uses in medicine and psychology."
Michael Schaller, PhD "The Federal Prohibition of Marihuana," Journal of Social History, Autumn 1970
"There is nothing in the medicinal use of Cannabis that has any relation to Cannabis addiction. I use the word 'Cannabis' in preference to the word 'marihuana', because Cannabis is the correct term for describing the plant and its products. The term 'marihuana' is a mongrel word that has crept into this country over the Mexican border and has no general meaning, except as it relates to the use of Cannabis preparations for smoking...
To say, however, as has been proposed here, that the use of the drug should be prevented by a prohibitive tax, loses sight of the fact that future investigation may show that there are substantial medical uses for Cannabis."
William C. Woodward, MD Statement to the US House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means, May 4, 1937
Oct. 1937 - "Marihuana Tax Act" Leads to Decline in Marijuana Prescriptions
Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger inspects a drug seizure. Source: DEA exhibit "Target America: Opening Eyes to the Damage Drugs Cause," posted on drugwarrant.net (accessed Aug. 31, 2011) "Spurred by spectacular accounts of marijuana's harmful effects on its users, by the drug's alleged connection to violent crime, and by a perception that state and local efforts to bring use of the drug under control were not working, Congress enacted the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937. Promoted by Harry Anslinger, Commissioner of the recently established Federal Bureau of Narcotics, the act imposed registration and reporting requirements and a tax on the growers, sellers, and buyers of marijuana. Although the act did not prohibit marijuana outright, its effect was the same. (Because marijuana was not included in the Harrison Narcotics Act in 1914, the Marihuana Tax Act was the federal government’s first attempt to regulate marijuana.)"
Mark Eddy CRS Report for Congress: "Medical Marijuana: Review and Analysis of Federal and State Policies" Apr. 2, 2010
"By the time the federal government passed the Marihuana Tax Act in [Oct.] 1937, every state had already enacted laws criminalizing the possession and sale of marijuana. The federal law, which was structured in a fashion similar to the 1914 Harrison Act, maintained the right to use marijuana for
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medicinal purposes but required physicians and pharmacists who prescribed or dispensed marijuana to register with federal authorities and pay an annual tax or license fee... After the passage of the Act, prescriptions of marijuana declined because doctors generally decided it was easier not to prescribe marijuana than to deal with the extra work imposed by the new law."
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, PhD "State Medical Marijuana Laws: Understanding the Laws and Their Limitations," Journal of Public Health Policy, 2002
Oct. 2, 1937 - First Marijuana Seller Convicted under US Federal Law Is Arrested
Mug shot of Samuel R. Caldwell. Source: NORML.org (accessed Feb. 21, 2012) "On the day the Marijuana Tax Stamp Act was enacted -- Oct. 2, 1937 -- the FBI and Denver, Colo., police raided the Lexington Hotel and arrested Samuel R. Caldwell, 58, an unemployed labourer and Moses Baca, 26. On Oct. 5, Caldwell went into the history trivia books as the first marijuana seller convicted under U.S. federal law. His customer, Baca, was found guilty of possession... Caldwell was sentenced to four years of hard labour in Leavenworth Penitentiary, plus a $1,000 fine. Baca received 18 months incarceration. Both men served every day of their sentence. A year after Caldwell was released from prison, he died."
National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) "The First Pot POW," norml.org (accessed Feb. 21, 2012)
1942 - Marijuana Removed from US Pharmacopeia "Marijuana was removed from the US Pharmacopeia in 1942, thus losing its remaining mantle of therapeutic legitimacy."
American Medical Association (AMA) "Report 10 of the Council on Scientific Affairs," 1997
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1951 - Boggs Act Establishes Minimum Prison Sentences for Simple Possession
"In 1951, Congress established mandatory minimum prison sentences for drug crimes. Named for its sponsor, Representative Hale Boggs (D-La.), the Boggs Act imposed two-to-five year minimum sentences for first offenses, including simple possession. The Act made no distinction between drug users and drug traffickers for purposes of sentencing.
The driving force behind the Boggs Act was a mistaken belief that drug addiction was a contagious and perhaps incurable disease and that addicts should be quarantined and forced to undergo treatment."
Families Against Mandatory Minimums Correcting Course: Lessons from the 1970 Repeal of Mandatory Minimums, 2008
1956 - Inclusion of Marijuana in Narcotics Control Act Leads to Stricter Penalties for Marijuana Possession Congress includes marijuana in the Narcotics Control Act of 1956, which results in stricter mandatory sentences for marijuana-related offenses. A first-offense marijuana possession carries a minimum sentence of 2-10 years with a fine of up to $20,000.
Frontline "Busted: America's War on Marijuana," www.pbs.org (accessed July 21, 2010)
1961 - UN Convention Provides Basis for Future Federal Prohibition of Marijuana The 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs establishes the following rule in Article 49: "The use of cannabis for other than medical and scientific purposes must be discontinued as soon as possible but in any case within twenty-five years..."
"UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961",1961 "In 1961, the United Nations adopted the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, the terms of which state that each participating country could 'adopt such measures as may be necessary to prevent misuse of, and illicit traffic in, the leaves of the Cannabis plant.' Congress approved participation in the convention in 1967 and three years later passed the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act, which provides the basis for current federal prohibitions regarding marijuana use."
National Academy of Sciences "An Analysis of Marijuana Policy," 1982
1970 - Controlled Substances Act Classifies Marijuana as a Drug with "No Accepted Medical Use"
Congress passes the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) as part of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970. This law establishes a "singles system of control for both narcotic and psychotropic drugs for the first time in US history." The CSA creates five schedules to classify substances. Marijuana is placed in Schedule I, which are drugs "classified as having a high potential for
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abuse, no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, and a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision."
US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) "A Tradition of Excellence: The History of the DEA from 1973-2003," DEA website (accessed Aug. 9, 2010)
US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) "Marijuana," DEA website (accessed June 17, 2011)
"The Congress asked the Department of Health, Education and Welfare for their recommendation where marijuana should be placed in the Controlled Substances Act.
The response, by letter of 8/14/70, of the Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs [Roger O. Egeberg] is as follows:
'...Some question has been raised whether the use of the plant itself produces "severe psychological or physical dependence" as required by a schedule I or even schedule II criterion. Since there is still a considerable void in our knowledge of the plant and effects of the active drug contained in it, our recommendation is that marihuana be retained within schedule I at least until the completion of certain studies now underway to resolve the issue. If those studies* make it appropriate for the Attorney General to change the placement of marihuana to a different schedule, he may do so in accordance with the authority provided under section 201 of the bill..'"
Jon Gettman, PHD "Marijuana's Dependence Liability - 1970," DrugScience.org (accessed Dec. 12, 2011)
[Editor's Note: *"Those studies" were concluded in the 1972 Schafer Commission report, which recommended removing marijuana from the scheduling system and decriminalizing it. President Nixon rejected their recommendation.]
May 1, 1971 - President Nixon Says He Will Not Legalize Marijuana Even If Shafer Commission Recommends It
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President Nixon had a meeting with Elvis Presley, who sought to be appointed as a Federal Agent-at-Large in the US Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, in 1970. Source: National Archives and Records Administration (accessed Aug. 31, 2011) In a televised news conference on May 1, 1971, responding to question about the White House Conference on Youth, which had voted to legalize marijuana, President Nixon said: "As you know, there is a Commission that is supposed to make recommendations to me about this subject; in this instance, however, I have such strong views that I will express them. I am against legalizing marijuana. Even if the Commission does recommend that it be legalized, I will not follow that recommendation... I can see no social or moral justification whatever for legalizing marijuana. I think it would be exactly the wrong step. It would simply encourage more and more of our young people to start down the long, dismal road that leads to hard drugs and eventually self-destruction."
Richard Nixon, LLB "The President's News Conference," The American Presidency Project website, May 1, 1971
1972 - National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse ("Shafer Commission") Recommends Decriminalizing Marijuana "The bipartisan Shafer Commission [National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse], appointed by President Nixon at the direction of Congress [and chaired by former Pennsylvania Governor Raymond Shafer], considered laws regarding marijuana and determined that personal use of marijuana should be decriminalized. Nixon rejected the recommendation, but over the course of the 1970s, eleven states decriminalized marijuana and most others reduced their penalties."
Frontline "Busted: America's War on Marijuana," www.pbs.org (accessed July 21, 2010) "Possession of marihuana for personal use would no longer be an offense, but marihuana possessed in public would remain contraband subject to summary seizure and forfeiture. Casual distribution of small amounts of marihuana for no remuneration, or insignificant remuneration not involving profit would no longer be an offense."
US National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse "Marihuana, A Signal of Misunderstanding," druglibrary.org, 1972
Nov. 24, 1976 - Federal Court Rules Robert Randall's Use of Marijuana a "Medical Necessity"
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Robert Randall Source: denverpost.com (accessed Aug. 31, 2011) "In November, 1976, a Washington, DC man [Robert Randall] afflicted by glaucoma employed the little-used Common Law Doctrine of Necessity to defend himself against criminal charges of marijuana cultivation (US v. Randall). On November 24, 1976, federal Judge James Washington ruled Randall's use of marijuana constituted a 'medical necessity...' Judge Washington dismissed criminal charges against Randall. Concurrent with this judicial determination, federal agencies responding to a May, 1976 petition filed by Randall, began providing this patient with licit, FDA-approved access to government supplies of medical marijuana. Randall was the first American to receive marijuana for the treatment of a medical disorder."
Schaffer Online Library of Drug Policy "Significant Legal Cases," www.druglibrary.org (accessed July 15, 2010)
1978 - New Mexico Passes First State Law Recognizing Medical Value of Marijuana "In 1978, New Mexico passed the first state law recognizing the medical value of marijuana [Controlled Substances Therapeutic Research Act]. Over the next few years, more than 30 states passed similar legislation."
Elsa Scott "Marinol: The Little Synthetic That Couldn't," High Times Magazine, July 1994
1986 - Anti-Drug Abuse Act Increases Penalties for Marijuana Possession and Dealing President Reagan signed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, instituting mandatory sentences for drug-related crimes. In conjunction with the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984, the new law raised federal penalties for marijuana possession and dealing, basing the penalties on the amount of the drug involved. Possession of 100 marijuana plants received the same penalty as possession of 100 grams of heroin. A later amendment to the Anti-Drug Abuse Act established a "three strikes and you're out" policy, requiring life sentences for repeat drug offenders, and providing for the death penalty for "drug kingpins."
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Frontline "Busted: America's War on Marijuana," www.pbs.org (accessed July 21, 2010)
1991 - Court Ruling Highlights Application of Medical Necessity Defense In Jenks v. State of Florida (1991), the Florida First District Court of Appeals rules on the application of a medical necessity defense in response to criminal prosecution. In the case of medical marijuana, the patient must be suffering from a medically recognized disease or illness, which is causing a symptom for which there is no effective treatment other than marijuana.
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, PhD "State Medical Marijuana Laws: Understanding the Laws and Their Limitations," Journal of Public Health Policy, 2002
Nov. 5, 1991 - First Medical Marijuana Initiative Passed in San Francisco "The first medical marijuana initiative appeared in the city of San Francisco as Proposition P, which passed with an overwhelming 79% of the vote on Nov. 5, 1991. Proposition P called on the State of California and the California Medical Association to 'restore hemp medical preparations to the list of available medicines in California,' and not to penalize physicians 'from prescribing hemp preparations for medical purposes.'"
Richard Glen Boire, JD Kevin Feeney, JD Medical Marijuana Law, 2007
Nov. 5, 1996 - California Becomes First State to Legalize Medical Marijuana
Medical marijuana activist Chris Conrad and his wife Mikki Norris advocated for the passage of Prop. 215 Source: chrisconrad.com (accessed Dec. 28, 2011) "Voters in California [pass] a state medical marijuana initiative in 1996. Known as Proposition 215, it permits patients and their primary caregivers, with a physician' s recommendation, to possess and cultivate marijuana for the treatment of AIDS, cancer, muscular spasticity, migraines, and several other disorders; it also protects them from punishment if they recommend marijuana to their patients."
Janet Joy, PhD Alison Mack Marijuana as Medicine: Beyond the Controversy, 2001
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Nov. 3, 1998 - Alaska, Oregon, and Washington Become 2nd, 3rd, and 4th States to Legalize Medical Marijuana "Fifty-eight percent of voters [in Alaska] approved Ballot Measure #8 on November 3, 1998. The law took effect on March 4, 1999. It removes state-level criminal penalties on the use, possession and cultivation of marijuana by patients who possess written documentation from their physician advising that they 'might benefit from the medical use of marijuana...' Fifty-five percent of voters [in Oregon] approved Measure 67 on November 3, 1998. The law took effect on December 3, 1998. It removes state-level criminal penalties on the use, possession and cultivation of marijuana by patients who possess a signed recommendation from their physician stating that marijuana "may mitigate" his or her debilitating symptoms... Fifty-nine percent of voters [in Washington] approved Measure 692 on November 3, 1998. The law took effect on that day. It removes state-level criminal penalties on the use, possession and cultivation of marijuana by patients who possess 'valid documentation" from their physician affirming that he or she suffers from a debilitating condition and that the "potential benefits of the medical use of marijuana would likely outweigh the health risks.'"
National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) "Active State Medical Marijuana Programs," norml.org (accessed Aug. 26, 2010)
Oct. 29, 2002 - Court Rules in Conant v. Walters That Gov't Cannot Revoke Physician Licenses Solely for Recommending Medical Marijuana After California legalized medical marijuana in 1996, the US government threatened to take away the medical licenses of physicians who recommended the use of marijuana. On Oct. 29, 2002, a US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit 3-0 ruling in the case Conant v. Walters prohibited "the federal government from either revoking a physician's license to prescribe controlled substances or conducting an investigation of a physician that might lead to such revocation, where the basis for the government's action is solely the physician's professional 'recommendation' of the use of medical marijuana." The US Supreme Court denied an appeal, so physicians maintained the right to discuss marijuana with their patients.
Jan. 1, 2004 - California Places Limits on Medical Marijuana Possession California's medical marijuana law is amended by Senate Bill 420. The bill requires the State Department of Health Services to "establish and maintain a voluntary program for the issuance of identification cards to qualified patients." It creates possession limits of "no more than eight ounces of dried marijuana per qualified patient" and "no more than six mature or 12 immature marijuana plants per qualified patient." SB 420 also states that qualified patients and caregivers "who associate within the State of California in order collectively or cooperatively to cultivate marijuana for medical purposes, shall not solely on the basis of that fact be subject to state criminal sanctions."
United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative (2001)
In 1996 California voters passed Proposition 215, which legalized medical cannabis. The
Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative was created to "provide seriously ill patients with a safe
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and reliable source of medical cannabis, information and patient support" in accordance with
Proposition 216.
In January 1998 the U.S. Government sued Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative for violating
federal laws created as a result of Controlled Substances Act of 1970. On May 14, 2001, the
United States Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Coop that
federal anti-drug laws do not permit an exception for medical cannabis and rejected the common-
law medical necessity defense to crimes enacted under the Controlled Substances Act because
Congress concluded cannabis has "no currently accepted medical use" when the act was passed
in 1970.
Gonzales v. Raich (2005)
Gonzales v. Raich 545 U.S. 1 (2005) was a decision in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (6-3)
that even where persons are cultivating, possessing, or distributing medical cannabis in
accordance with state-approved medical cannabis programs, such persons are violating federal
marijuana laws and can therefore be prosecuted by federal authorities because the Commerce
Clause of the United States Constitution permits federal authorities (pursuant to the Controlled
Substances Act) to prosecute any and all offenses of federal marijuana laws. The respondents
argued that because the cannabis in question had been grown, transported, and consumed entirely
within the state of California, pursuant to California medical cannabis laws, their activity did not
implicate interstate commerce and as such, could not be legitimately regulated by the federal
government through the Commerce Clause. The Supreme Court disagreed, reasoning that
cannabis grown for medical purposes is indistinguishable from illicit marijuana and that, because
the intrastate medical cannabis market contributes to the interstate illicit marijuana market, the
Commerce Clause applies. Even where persons are using medical cannabis in full compliance
with state law, those persons can still be punished by federal authorities for violating federal law.
To combat state-approved medical cannabis legislation, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
routinely targets and arrests medical cannabis patients as well as seizing medical cannabis and
the business assets of growers and medical dispensaries. However, the Obama administration has
indicated that this practice may potentially be curtailed.
June 6, 2005 - US Supreme Court Rules Congress May Ban Marijuana Use in Gonzalez v. Raich "California's [1996 medical marijuana] law conflicted with the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA), which banned possession of marijuana. After the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) seized doctor-prescribed marijuana from a patient's home, a group of medical marijuana users sued the DEA and U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft in federal district court. [Gonzalez v. Raich, docket no. 03-1454] The medical marijuana users argued the Controlled Substances Act - which Congress passed using its constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce - exceeded Congress' commerce clause power. The district court ruled against the group. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and ruled the CSA unconstitutional... the Ninth Circuit ruled using medical marijuana did not 'substantially affect' interstate commerce and therefore could not be regulated by Congress... In a 6-3 opinion delivered by Justice John Paul Stevens [on June 6, 2005], the Court held that the commerce clause gave Congress authority to prohibit the local cultivation and use of marijuana, despite
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state law to the contrary... The majority argued that Congress could ban local marijuana use..."
Dec. 12, 2005 - Federal Agents Execute Widespread Raid on Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in California
DEA agents seized marijuana during the Dec. 12, 2005 raids. Source: Associated Press/Ben Margot "[On Dec. 12, 2005] [f]ederal and local law enforcement officers Monday conducted what activists called the most widespread raid on medical marijuana dispensaries anywhere in California. Drug Enforcement Administration agents and two area police agencies raided 11 marijuana dispensaries in San Diego and two in San Marcos, questioning employees and customers and carting off documents. The agents also seized an unknown quantity of marijuana. No arrests were made. Authorities said the investigation was aimed at determining how much marijuana was being sold and who was supplying it."
Los Angeles Times "Authorities Raid 11 Medical Pot Suppliers," latimes.com, Dec. 13, 2005
Jan. 1, 2006 - Oregon's Medical Marijuana Law Amended to Exclude Affirmative Defense for Exceeding Possession Limits On Jan. 1, 2006, Senate Bill 1085 takes effect in Oregon as an amendment to the state's medical marijuana law. Qualified patients who possess cannabis in amounts exceeding the state guidelines of 24 ounces of usable marijuana and 24 plants (18 immature, 6 mature) will no longer retain the ability to argue an "affirmative defense" of medical necessity at trial. Patients who fail to register with the state, but who possess medical cannabis in amounts compliant with state law, still retain the ability to raise an "affirmative defense" at trial.
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The law also redefines "mature plants" to include only those cannabis plants that are more than 12 inches in height and diameter, and establish a state-registry for those authorized to produce medical cannabis to qualified patients.
Aug. 25, 2008 - California Attorney General Issues State Guidelines for Medical Marijuana
Former California Attorney General Jerry Brown. Source: AP Photo, LAist.com, July 26, 2010
On Aug. 25, 2008, then-California Attorney General Jerry Brown issues guidelines for law enforcement and medical marijuana patients to clarify the state's laws. The non-binding 11-page document states, "In light of California’s decision to remove the use and cultivation of physician recommended marijuana from the scope of the state’s drug laws, this Office recommends that state and local law enforcement officers not arrest individuals or seize marijuana under federal law when the officer determines from the facts available that the cultivation, possession, or transportation is permitted under California’s medical marijuana laws."
Feb. 25, 2009 - US Attorney General Says Raids on Medical Marijuana Clinics Will Not Continue
Protestor at DEA raid of medical marijuana dispensary in Hollywood, CA. Source: Shay Sowden, LAist.com, July 25, 2007
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"Supporters of programs to provide legal marijuana to patients with painful medical conditions are celebrating Attorney General Eric Holder's statement this week [on Feb. 25, 2009] that the Drug Enforcement Administration would end its raids on state-approved marijuana dispensaries... The new policy represents a significant turnabout for the federal government. During the Bush administration, DEA agents shut down 30 to 40 marijuana dispensaries, the agency said."
Alex Johnson "DEA to Halt Medical Marijuana Raids," msnbc.com, Feb. 27, 2009
Oct. 19, 2009 - US Attorney General Announces That DOJ Will Not Prioritize Prosecution of Legal Medical Marijuana Patients On Oct. 19, 2009 the US Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a memo, known subsequently as the Ogden memo, to "provide clarification and guidance to federal prosecutors in States that have enacted laws authorizing the medical use of marijuana." In an effort to make the most efficient use of limited resources, the DOJ announced that prosecutorial priorities should not target "individuals whose actions are in clear and unambiguous compliance with existing state laws providing for the medical use of marijuana." Specifically, individuals with cancer or other serious illnesses who use medical marijuana and the caregivers who provide the medical marijuana in accordance with state law should not be the focus of federal prosecution. The memo clarified that "prosecution of commercial enterprises that unlawfully market and sell marijuana for profit continues to be an enforcement priority." It is also explicitly stated that the memo "does not 'legalize' marijuana or provide a legal defense to a violation of federal law."
Apr. 1, 2010 - Washington Expands List of Medical Professionals Authorized to Recommend Medical Marijuana
Washington Governor Christine Gregoire after signing a bill (not medical marijuana-related) on Feb. 13, 2012. Source: nbcnews.com "More medical professionals will be allowed to authorize the use of medical marijuana for qualified patients under a measure signed into law by Gov. Chris Gregoire. Gregoire signed the bill Thursday [Apr. 1, 2010] and it takes effect June 10.
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It adds physician assistants, naturopaths, advanced registered nurse practitioners and others to the list of those who can officially recommend marijuana for patients under the state's medical marijuana law.
Under previous law, only physicians were allowed to write the recommendation. The medical marijuana measure is Senate Bill 5798."
Associated Press (AP) "WA Governor Allows More to OK Medical Marijuana," Seattle Times, Apr. 1, 2010
Jan. 22, 2013 - US Appeals Court Denies Medical Marijuana Reclassification Challenge "The United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a ruling today [Jan. 22, 2013] in the medical marijuana reclassification case, Americans for Safe Access v. Drug Enforcement Administration. In a 2-1 decision, the Court granted standing in the case -- the right to bring a claim against the federal government -- but denied the legal challenge on the merits, agreeing with the government's assertion that 'adequate and well-controlled studies' on the medical efficacy of marijuana do not exist."
Americans for Safe Access (ASA) "D.C. Circuit Denies Medical Marijuana Reclassification Challenge, Advocates Vow to Appeal," ASA website, Jan. 22, 2013
Aug. 29, 2013 - Justice Department Will Not Challenge State Marijuana Laws
"Today [Aug. 29, 2013], the U.S. Department of Justice announced an update to its federal marijuana enforcement policy in light of recent state ballot initiatives that legalize, under state law, the possession of small amounts of marijuana and provide for the regulation of marijuana production, processing, and sale...
[T]he federal government has traditionally relied on state and local authorizes to address marijuana activity through enforcement of their own narcotics laws. This guidance continues that policy. For states such as Colorado and Washington that have enacted laws to authorize the production, distribution and possession of marijuana... [b]ased on assurances that those states will impose an appropriately strict regulatory system, the Department has informed the governors of both states that it is deferring its right to challenge their legalization laws at this time."
US Department of Justice (DOJ) "Justice Department Announces Update to Marijuana Enforcement Policy," www.justice.gov, Aug. 29, 2013
18. Oregon
Ballot Measure 67 -- Approved by 55% of voters on Nov. 3, 1998 Effective: Dec. 3, 1998
Removes state-level criminal penalties on the use, possession and cultivation of marijuana by patients who possess a signed recommendation from their physician stating that marijuana "may mitigate" his or her debilitating symptoms.
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Approved Conditions: Cancer, glaucoma, positive status for HIV/AIDS, or treatment for these conditions; A medical condition or treatment for a medical condition that produces cachexia, severe pain, severe nausea, seizures, including seizures caused by epilepsy, or persistent muscle spasms, including spasms caused by multiple sclerosis. Other conditions are subject to approval by the Health Division of the Oregon Department of Human Resources.
Possession/Cultivation: A registry identification cardholder or the designated primary caregiver of the cardholder may possess up to six mature marijuana plants and 24 ounces of usable marijuana. A registry identification cardholder and the designated primary caregiver of the cardholder may possess a combined total of up to 18 marijuana seedlings. (per Oregon Revised Statutes ORS 475.300 -- ORS 475.346)
Amended: Senate Bill 1085
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
State-qualified patients who possess cannabis in amounts exceeding the new state guidelines will no longer retain the ability to argue an "affirmative defense" of medical necessity at trial. Patients who fail to register with the state, but who possess medical cannabis in amounts compliant with state law, still retain the ability to raise an "affirmative defense" at trial.
The law also redefines "mature plants" to include only those cannabis plants that are more than 12 inches in height and diameter, and establish a state-registry for those authorized to produce medical cannabis to qualified patients.
Amended: House Bill 3052 Effective: July 21, 1999
Mandates that patients (or their caregivers) may only cultivate marijuana in one location, and requires that patients must be diagnosed by their physicians at least 12 months prior to an arrest in order to present an "affirmative defense." This bill also states that law enforcement officials who seize marijuana from a patient pending trial do not have to keep those plants alive. Last year the Oregon Board of Health approved agitation due to Alzheimer’s disease to the list of debilitating conditions qualifying for legal protection.
In August 2001, program administrators filed established temporary procedures further defining the relationship between physicians and patients. The new rule defines attending physician as "a physician who has established a physician/patient relationship with the patient;... is primarily responsible for the care and treatment of the patients;... has reviewed a patient’s medical records at the patient’s request, has conducted a thorough physical examination of the patient, has provided a treatment plan and/or follow-up care, and has documented these activities in a patient file."
Amended: SB 281 Signed by Gov. John Kitzhaber on June 6, 2013
Adds post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to the list of approved conditions for medical marijuana use. Amended: HB 3460 Signed by Gov. John Kitzhaber on Aug. 14, 2013 Creates a dispensary program by allowing the state licensing and regulation of medical marijuana facilities to transfer marijuana to registry identification cardholders or their designated primary caregivers.
Is it ethical for a lawyer to toke up in compliance with the new state marijuana laws,
even though it is still illegal under federal law,
even though the government is currently not enforcing the federal law in this regard?
ORS 9.220(2)(a): “An application for admission as attorney must * * * show that the applicant * * * [i]s a person of good moral character and fit to practice law.” ORS 9.220(2)(b) states that “the lack of ‘good moral character’ may be established by reference to acts or conduct that
reflect moral turpitude or to acts or conduct which would cause a reasonable person to have
substantial doubts about the individual’s honesty, fairness and respect for the rights of others and for the laws of the state and the nation. The conduct or acts in question should be
rationally connected to the applicant’s fitness to practice law.”
Rule for Admission of Attorneys 3.10: “An applicant shall not be eligible for admission to the
Bar after having been convicted of a crime, the commission of which would have led to
disbarment in all the circumstances present, had the person been an Oregon attorney at the
time of conviction.”
Oregon State Bar Rule of Procedure 8.1(b): Applicant for reinstatement to the Bar “must show that the applicant has good moral character and general fitness to practice law and that the
resumption of the practice of law in this state by the applicant will not be detrimental to the
administration of justice or the public interest.”
Oregon Rule of Professional Conduct 8.4(a)(2): “It is professional misconduct for a lawyer to * * * commit a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness or
fitness as a lawyer in other respects.”
Revised Oregon Code of Judicial Conduct Rule 1-101(A)-(D):
(A) A judge shall observe high standards of conduct so that the integrity, impartiality
and independence of the judiciary are preserved and shall act at all times in a
manner that promotes public confidence in the judiciary and the judicial
system.
(B) A judge shall not commit a criminal act.
(C) A judge shall not engage in conduct that reflects adversely on the judge’s
character, competence, temperament or fitness to serve as a judge.
(D) A judge shall not engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or
misrepresentation.
In re McDonough, 336 Or 36 (2003) (lawyer with four DUII convictions, among others, violated
predecessors of ORPC 8.4(a)(2) and ORS 9.220(2)(a), because those convictions reflected
adversely on the lawyer’s fitness as a lawyer, apart from honesty and trustworthiness, because
lawyer knew DUII was unlawful and intentionally repeatedly violated DUII law, thus
establishing disrespect for the law, lawyer engaged in a pattern of criminal conduct, and DUII
risked injury to others; lawyer also “violated his duty to the public to maintain his personal integrity” and “caused potential injury to the legal profession by damaging the public’s confidence in lawyers”).
Emerald Steel Fabricators, Inc. v. BOLI, 348 Or 159 (2010) (holding that federal law trumps
state medical marijuana law insofar as state law purports to authorize marijuana use).
The King County (Washington) Bar Association and Colorado Bar Association Ethics
Committee have determined that lawyers can use marijuana so long as doing so does not
interfere with their ability to represent their clients. KCBA Ethics Advisory Opinion on I-502 &
Rules of Professional Conduct (October 2013); CBA Ethics Committee Formal Opinion No. 124
– A Lawyer’s Medical Use of Marijuana (July 2012).
What differentiates the “civil disobedience” and “states’ rights” aspects of state marijuana laws
from the similar aspects of Arizona’s SB 1070, Kansas’ Second Amendment Protection Act, and late Jim Crow-era laws in the South?
Many use the “states’ rights” frame when cheering state marijuana laws. See States’ Rights to Medical Marijuana Act (HR 2592) (introduced in Congress by Barney Frank in 2001); States’ Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act (HR 689) (introduced by Earl Blumenauer in 2013).
As the Independent Voter Network has said in this regard, “States’ rights: it’s not just for conservatives anymore!”
Supreme Court of Oregon.
In re Complaint as to the CONDUCT OF Michael
McDONOUGH, Accused.
(OSB 00–20; SC S49503).
Argued and Submitted May 5, 2003.
Decided Oct. 2, 2003.
State Bar charged attorney with violating dis-
ciplinary rules based on attorney's criminal convic-
tions for driving under the influence of intoxicants
(DUII), driving while suspended, and recklessly en-
dangering another person. A trial panel of the Dis-
ciplinary Board concluded attorney was guilty of
alleged misconduct and imposed an 18-month sus-
pension. The Supreme Court held that: (1) attor-
ney's criminal acts reflected adversely on attorney's
fitness to practice law; (2) attorney's criminal acts
subjected attorney to discipline; (3) under prelimin-
ary determination of appropriate sanction, conduct
warranted suspension; (4) several aggravating
factors existed; (5) some mitigating factors existed;
and (6) 18-month suspension was appropriate sanc-
tion.
Suspension ordered.
West Headnotes
[1] Attorney and Client 45 39
45 Attorney and Client
45I The Office of Attorney
45I(C) Discipline
45k37 Grounds for Discipline
45k39 k. Criminal offenses and con-
viction thereof. Most Cited Cases
Attorney's criminal acts, including four acts of
driving under the influence of intoxicants (DUII),
five acts of driving while suspended, three acts of
reckless driving, one act of fourth-degree assault,
and one act of recklessly endangering another per-
son, reflected adversely on attorney's fitness to
practice law; despite knowledge and criminal sanc-
tions imposed upon him, attorney repeatedly chose
to drive in violation of laws prohibiting him from
driving while intoxicated and while license was
suspended, attorney risked serious bodily injury to
others every time he chose to drive while intoxic-
ated, and his multiple acts of driving while intoxic-
ated and while his license was suspended revealed
pattern of criminal conduct. Code of Prof.Resp.,
DR 1-102(A)(2).
[2] Attorney and Client 45 39
45 Attorney and Client
45I The Office of Attorney
45I(C) Discipline
45k37 Grounds for Discipline
45k39 k. Criminal offenses and con-
viction thereof. Most Cited Cases
Attorney's criminal acts, including four acts of
driving under the influence of intoxicants (DUII),
five acts of driving while suspended, three acts of
reckless driving, one act of fourth-degree assault,
and one act of recklessly endangering another per-
son, reflected substantial disrespect for law and ra-
tionally was connected to question of attorney's fit-
ness to practice law, and, as conduct would cause
Supreme Court to deny attorney's admission if he
were applicant to state bar, conduct subjected attor-
ney to discipline. West's Or.Rev. Stat. Ann. §
9.527(1).
[3] Attorney and Client 45 59.13(1)
45 Attorney and Client
45I The Office of Attorney
45I(C) Discipline
45k59.1 Punishment; Disposition
45k59.13 Suspension
45k59.13(1) k. In general. Most
Cited Cases
(Formerly 45k58)
Under preliminary determination of appropriate
sanction, attorney's misconduct, which included
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criminal convictions for four acts of driving under
the influence of intoxicants (DUII), five acts of
driving while suspended, three acts of reckless driv-
ing, one act of fourth-degree assault, and one act of
recklessly endangering another person, warranted
suspension from practice of law; attorney's inten-
tional conduct caused actual injury to one party, po-
tential injury to public every time that he drove
while intoxicated, actual injury to legal system by
undermining orders suspending his driving priv-
ileges and by demonstrating an indifference to law,
and potential injury to legal profession by dam-
aging public's confidence in lawyers.
[4] Attorney and Client 45 59.5(4)
45 Attorney and Client
45I The Office of Attorney
45I(C) Discipline
45k59.1 Punishment; Disposition
45k59.5 Factors Considered
45k59.5(4) k. Factors in aggrava-
tion. Most Cited Cases
(Formerly 45k58)
Several aggravating factors existed, affecting
degree of sanction to be imposed against attorney
for misconduct, including criminal convictions for
four acts of driving under influence of intoxicants
(DUII), five acts of driving while suspended, three
acts of reckless driving, one act of fourth-degree as-
sault, and one act of recklessly endangering another
person; attorney acted with selfish motive, engaged
in pattern of misconduct by repeatedly committing
multiple criminal offenses, had substantial experi-
ence in the practice of law, and failed to appreciate
seriousness of his misconduct.
[5] Attorney and Client 45 59.5(5)
45 Attorney and Client
45I The Office of Attorney
45I(C) Discipline
45k59.1 Punishment; Disposition
45k59.5 Factors Considered
45k59.5(5) k. Factors in mitigation.
Most Cited Cases
(Formerly 45k58)
Though attorney provided medical evidence
that he suffered from alcoholism, mitigating factor
of chemical dependency was inapplicable in de-
termining appropriate sanction for attorney's mis-
conduct, which included criminal convictions for
four acts of driving under the influence of intoxic-
ants (DUII), five acts of driving while suspended,
three acts of reckless driving, one act of fourth-de-
gree assault, and one act of recklessly endangering
another person, since attorney's struggle with alco-
holism did not cause all misconduct, and attorney
did not establish that he had accomplished mean-
ingful and sustained recovery from alcohol depend-
ency.
[6] Attorney and Client 45 59.5(5)
45 Attorney and Client
45I The Office of Attorney
45I(C) Discipline
45k59.1 Punishment; Disposition
45k59.5 Factors Considered
45k59.5(5) k. Factors in mitigation.
Most Cited Cases
(Formerly 45k58)
In mitigation in assessing punishment for attor-
ney misconduct, chemical dependency, including
alcoholism, can operate as a mitigating factor when
the accused attorney shows that (1) there is medical
evidence that such a dependency exists, (2) the de-
pendency caused the misconduct, (3) the accused
lawyer has accomplished a meaningful and sus-
tained period of recovery from such dependency,
and (4) the recovery arrested the misconduct, and
recurrence of the misconduct is unlikely.
[7] Attorney and Client 45 53(1)
45 Attorney and Client
45I The Office of Attorney
45I(C) Discipline
45k47 Proceedings
45k53 Evidence
45k53(1) k. In general. Most Cited
Cases
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Although not relevant to issue whether attorney
had committed alleged misconduct, testimony relat-
ing to attorney's use of alcohol and his compliance
with alcohol treatment was relevant in attorney dis-
ciplinary proceedings to issue of appropriate sanc-
tion and existence of mitigating factor of chemical
dependency.
[8] Attorney and Client 45 59.5(5)
45 Attorney and Client
45I The Office of Attorney
45I(C) Discipline
45k59.1 Punishment; Disposition
45k59.5 Factors Considered
45k59.5(5) k. Factors in mitigation.
Most Cited Cases
(Formerly 45k58)
Several mitigating factors existed in determin-
ing appropriate sanction for attorney, whose mis-
conduct included criminal convictions for four acts
of driving under the influence of intoxicants
(DUII), five acts of driving while suspended, three
acts of reckless driving, one act of fourth-degree as-
sault, and one act of recklessly endangering another
person; attorney had no prior disciplinary record, he
introduced evidence that he had reputation for hon-
esty in legal community, he cooperated during dis-
ciplinary proceeding, other penalties had been im-
posed against him in form of criminal sanctions,
and there was lengthy delay between commission
of some criminal offenses and state bar's pursuit of
disciplinary proceedings.
[9] Attorney and Client 45 59.13(5)
45 Attorney and Client
45I The Office of Attorney
45I(C) Discipline
45k59.1 Punishment; Disposition
45k59.13 Suspension
45k59.13(2) Definite Suspension
45k59.13(5) k. Commission of
crime. Most Cited Cases
(Formerly 45k58)
Despite some mitigating factors, 18-month sus-
pension was appropriate sanction for attorney,
whose misconduct included criminal convictions
for four acts of driving under the influence of intox-
icants (DUII), five acts of driving while suspended,
three acts of reckless driving, one act of fourth-de-
gree assault, and one act of recklessly endangering
another person; attorney repeatedly engaged in
criminal conduct, refused to abide by sanctions im-
posed for criminal conduct, risked serious harm to
public, acted with selfish motive, failed to appreci-
ate seriousness of his misconduct, and aggravating
factors outweighed mitigating factors.
**307 *37-A J. Michael Alexander, Salem, argued
the cause and submitted the brief for the accused.
Martha M. Hicks, Assistant Disciplinary Counsel,
Lake Oswego, filed the brief for the Oregon State
Bar.
Before CARSON, Chief Justice, and GILLETTE,
DURHAM, RIGGS, De MUNIZ, and BALMER,
Justices.FN*
FN* Kistler, J., did not participate in the
consideration or decision of this case.
*38 PER CURIAM.
In this lawyer disciplinary proceeding, the Ore-
gon State Bar (Bar) charged Michael L. Mc-
Donough (the accused) with violating Code of Pro-
fessional Responsibility Disciplinary Rule (DR)
1–102(A)(2) (committing criminal act that reflects
adversely upon lawyer's honesty, trustworthiness,
or fitness to practice law) and with being subject to
discipline under ORS 9.527(1) (conduct justifying
denial of admission to Bar). A trial panel of the
Disciplinary Board concluded that the accused was
guilty of the alleged misconduct and imposed an
18–month suspension. Our review is automatic,
ORS 9.536(2); BR 10.1, and de novo, ORS 9.536(3)
; BR 10.6. The Bar has the burden of establishing
the alleged misconduct by clear and convincing
**308 evidence. BR 5.2. For the reasons that fol-
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low, we conclude that the accused violated DR
1–102(A)(2) and is subject to discipline under ORS
9.527(1). We also conclude that an 18–month sus-
pension from the practice of law is the appropriate
sanction for that misconduct.
The following facts are undisputed. In three
separate incidents that occurred between 1983 and
1985, the accused twice committed the crime of
Reckless Driving, a Class A misdemeanor, and
twice committed the crime of Driving Under the In-
fluence of Intoxicants (DUII), also a Class A mis-
demeanor.
In 1994, the accused again was charged with
the crime of DUII, for which he ultimately was
convicted in 1996. The accused unsuccessfully ap-
pealed his conviction, and, in January 1998, he was
fined and sentenced to 30 days in jail (with 28 days
suspended), he was placed on probation for 12
months, and his driver license was suspended for
one year. Nine months later, in September and early
October of 1998, the accused was charged with
Driving While Suspended, a Class A misdemeanor,
on three separate occasions.
On October 11, 1998, the accused and his then-
girlfriend, Wardell, spent an evening drinking heav-
ily at a tavern in Salem. Although the accused knew
that Wardell was intoxicated, he allowed her to
drive when they left the tavern. Wardell drove to
Interstate 5, and, on the freeway entrance ramp, the
accused and Wardell became engaged in *39 a
physical struggle. The accused ultimately pulled
Wardell out of the vehicle by her hair and ordered
her to get into the passenger seat of the vehicle.
When Wardell refused, the accused started to drive,
and Wardell jumped on the hood of the vehicle. The
accused continued to drive onto the freeway and
then attempted to throw Wardell off the vehicle by
hitting his brakes. After he had driven approxim-
ately a quarter of a mile with Wardell still clinging
to the hood of the vehicle, a state police trooper
stopped and arrested the accused. The accused re-
gistered a blood alcohol level of 0.14, and he was
charged with Driving While Suspended, DUII, As-
sault in the Fourth Degree, Recklessly Endangering
Another Person, and Reckless Driving. Wardell
suffered minor injuries from the incident.
From the charges from that incident on Octo-
ber, 11, 1998, together with the accused's three pri-
or 1998 Driving While Suspended charges, the ac-
cused ultimately was convicted of two counts of
Driving While Suspended, one count of DUII, and
one count of Recklessly Endangering Another Per-
son. For those convictions, in February 1999, the
accused was fined and sentenced to 12 days in jail,
he was placed on probation for 24 months, and his
driver license was suspended for three years.
Six months later, in August 1999, the accused
again was charged with the crime of Driving While
Suspended, for which he was convicted in Decem-
ber 1999. For that conviction, the accused was sen-
tenced to 180 days in jail (with 150 days suspen-
ded).
Finally, on January 24, 2001, and on Septem-
ber 5, 2001, the accused again was charged with
Driving While Suspended. Both those charges sub-
sequently were dismissed.
In October 2001, the Bar filed a Second
Amended Formal Complaint, alleging that the ac-
cused had violated DR 1–102(A)(2) and was sub-
ject to discipline under ORS 9.527(1) because he
had committed the following criminal acts:
“1. In 1983, Reckless Driving, a Class A Mis-
demeanor;
“2. In 1984, Driving Under the Influence of In-
toxicants and Reckless Driving, Class A Misde-
meanors;
*40 “3. On August 19, 1985, Driving Under the
Influence of Intoxicants, a Class A Misdemeanor;
“4. On December 27, 1994, Driving Under the
Influence of Intoxicants, a Class A Misdemeanor;
“5. On September 22, 1998, Driving While
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Suspended, a Class A Misdemeanor;
“6. On September 30, 1998, Driving While
Suspended, a Class A Misdemeanor;
“7. On October 6, 1998, Driving While Suspen-
ded, a Class A Misdemeanor;
**309 “8. On October 11, 1998, Driving While
Suspended/Revoked, a Class A Misdemeanor;
“9. On October 11, 1998, Driving Under the In-
fluence of Intoxicants, a Class A Misdemeanor;
“10. On October 11, 1998, Recklessly Endan-
gering Another, a Class A Misdemeanor;
“11. On October 11, 1998, Assault IV, a Class
A Misdemeanor;
“12. On October 11, 1998, Reckless Driving, a
Class A Misdemeanor;
“13. August 12, 1999, a violation of probation;
“14. On August 12, 1999, Driving While Sus-
pended, a Class A Misdemeanor;
“15. On January 24, 2001, Driving While Sus-
pended, a Class A Misdemeanor;
“16. On September 5, 2001, Driving While
Suspended, a Class A Misdemeanor.”
At the disciplinary hearing in January 2002, the
trial panel determined that the accused had commit-
ted all the alleged criminal acts and that, in doing
so, had violated DR 1–102(A)(2) and was subject to
discipline under ORS 9.527(1). As noted, for that
misconduct, the trial panel suspended the accused
from the practice of law for a period of 18 months.
On review, the accused admits to all the crim-
inal conduct that the Bar alleges, except the two al-
legations of *41 Driving While Suspended on Janu-
ary 24, 2001, and on September 5, 2001 (acts 15
and 16 in the Bar's Second Amended Formal Com-
plaint). He disputes, however, that his criminal acts
constitute a violation of DR 1–102(A)(2) or cause
him to be subject to discipline under ORS 9.527(1).
He also contends that, in any event, the 18–month
suspension that the trial panel imposed is an excess-
ive sanction.
[1] From our review of the record, we agree
with the accused that the Bar has failed to establish
by clear and convincing evidence that the accused
was guilty of Driving While Suspended in January
and September of 2001. We accept the accused's
admission as to the truth of the other alleged crim-
inal acts. On de novo review, we now must determ-
ine whether, by engaging in such criminal conduct,
the accused violated DR 1–102(A)(2) and is subject
to discipline under ORS 9.527(1) and, if so, the ap-
propriate sanction for that misconduct. DR
1–102(A)(2) provides:
“It is professional misconduct for a lawyer to
* * * [c]ommit a criminal act that reflects ad-
versely on the lawyer's honesty, trustworthiness
or fitness to practice law[.]”
As noted, the accused here admits to commit-
ting the following Class A misdemeanors: (1) four
acts of DUII, ORS 813.010; (2) five acts of Driving
While Suspended, ORS 811.182; (3) three acts of
Reckless Driving, ORS 811.140; (4) one act of As-
sault in the Fourth Degree, ORS 163.160; and (5)
one act of Recklessly Endangering Another Person,
ORS 163.195. He also admits to a probation viola-
tion. In light of those admissions, the focus of our
inquiry under DR 1–102(A)(2) is whether the ac-
cused's criminal acts reflect adversely upon his
“honesty, trustworthiness or fitness to practice
law[.]”
The Bar does not contend that the criminal acts
at issue raise doubts as to the accused's honesty or
trustworthiness; rather, the Bar contends that those
acts reflect adversely upon the accused's fitness to
practice law. In In re White, 311 Or. 573, 589, 815
P.2d 1257 (1991), this court explained that, for a
criminal act to reflect adversely upon an accused
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lawyer's fitness to practice law within the meaning
of *42 DR 1–102(A)(2), a rational connection must
exist between the criminal conduct and the accused
lawyer's fitness to practice law aside from the fact
of the criminality of the act alone. The court in
White identified a number of factors that this court
considers in making that determination, including:
“the lawyer's mental state; the extent to which the
act demonstrates disrespect for the law or law en-
forcement; the presence or absence of a victim;
the extent of actual or potential injury to a victim;
and the **310 presence or absence of a pattern of
criminal conduct.”
Id.
Applying those factors here, we agree with the
Bar that the accused's criminal acts reflect ad-
versely upon his fitness to practice law. The ac-
cused knew that the law prohibited him from driv-
ing while he was intoxicated and while his license
was suspended; however, despite that knowledge
and despite criminal sanctions that he had received
for such conduct, the accused nevertheless re-
peatedly chose to drive in violation of those laws.
Based upon those facts, we conclude that the ac-
cused's repeated criminal offenses were intentional
and demonstrated a substantial disrespect for the
law. See In re Lawrence, 332 Or. 502, 510, 31 P.3d
1078 (2001) (when accused lawyer knew of duty to
file tax returns timely, his repeated failure to do so
was intentional and reflected disrespect for law). In
addition, every time that he chose to drive while in-
toxicated, the accused risked serious bodily injury
to others, and, on October 11, 1998, he in fact
caused bodily injury to Wardell. Finally, the ac-
cused's multiple acts of driving while intoxicated
and while his license was suspended reveal a pat-
tern of criminal conduct. The accused is guilty of
violating DR 1–102(A)(2).
[2] The Bar also alleges that, by committing
the above criminal acts, the accused is subject to
discipline under this court's authority set out in
ORS 9.527(1), which provides:
“The Supreme Court may disbar, suspend or
reprimand a member of the bar whenever, upon
proper proceedings for that purpose, it appears to
the court that * * * [t]he member has committed
an act or carried on a course of conduct of such
nature that, if the member were applying for ad-
mission to the bar, the application should be
denied[.]”
*43 ORS 9.220 provides, in part:
“An applicant for admission as attorney must *
* * show that the applicant * * * [i]s a person of
good moral character and fit to practice law. * * *
For purposes of this section[,] * * * the lack of
‘good moral character’ may be established by ref-
erence to acts or conduct that reflect moral
turpitude or to acts or conduct which would cause
a reasonable person to have substantial doubts
about the individual's honesty, fairness and re-
spect for the rights of others and for the laws of
the state and the nation. The conduct or acts in
question should be rationally connected to the ap-
plicant's fitness to practice law.”
As discussed above, the accused's criminal
conduct, particularly his refusal to abide by sanc-
tions imposed for that conduct, reflects a substantial
disrespect for the law and rationally is connected to
the question of his fitness to practice law. Because
such conduct would cause us to deny the accused's
admission if he were an applicant to the Bar, we
conclude that the accused also is subject to discip-
line under ORS 9.527(1). See In re Rowell, 305 Or.
584, 586–88, 754 P.2d 905 (1988) (applicant's
criminal activity demonstrated lack of requisite
moral character for admission to Bar at time of con-
duct).FN1
FN1. Although we conclude that the ac-
cused is subject to discipline under ORS
9.527(1), that finding does not enhance the
sanction for the accused's misconduct in
light of our determination that the ac-
cused's conduct also constituted a violation
of DR 1–102(A)(2). See In re Kimmell,
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332 Or. 480, 487, 31 P.3d 414 (2001)
(noting that this court's finding that same
conduct violated both Code of Professional
Responsibility and provision of ORS
chapter 9 generally has not served to en-
hance sanction).
Having concluded that the accused is guilty of
violating DR 1–102(A)(2) and is subject to discip-
line under ORS 9.527(1), we now must determine
the appropriate sanction. In doing so, we follow this
court's well-established methodology by referring
to the American Bar Association's Standards for
Imposing Lawyer Sanctions (1991) (amended 1992)
(ABA Standards) and to this court's case law for
guidance. See, e.g., In re Kimmell, 332 Or. 480,
487–88, 31 P.3d 414 (2001) (describing methodo-
logy).
[3] *44 Under the ABA Standards, we first
make a preliminary determination of the appropri-
ate sanction by considering the duty that the ac-
cused violated, the accused's mental state, and the
injury that the accused's**311 misconduct caused.
ABA Standard 3.0. In this case, the accused viol-
ated his duty to the public to maintain his personal
integrity when he engaged in repeated acts of un-
lawful conduct. ABA Standard 5.1; see Kimmell,
332 Or. at 488, 31 P.3d 414 (accused lawyer viol-
ated duty to maintain personal integrity by enga-
ging in illegal conduct). As previously noted, the
accused's conduct here was intentional, and he
caused actual injury to Wardell on October 11,
1998, and potential injury to the public every time
that he drove while intoxicated. Moreover, when he
repeatedly chose to drive after his driver license
was suspended for his crimes of driving while in-
toxicated, the accused caused actual injury to the
legal system by undermining the orders that had
suspended his driving privileges and by demon-
strating an indifference to the law. The accused's
criminal offenses also caused potential injury to the
legal profession by damaging the public's confid-
ence in lawyers. The preliminary sanction under the
ABA Standards for such conduct is a suspension
from the practice of law. ABA Standard 5.12.
[4] We next consider the existence of any ag-
gravating or mitigating circumstances that may af-
fect the degree of the sanction to be imposed. ABA
Standard 3.0. In this proceeding, we find several
aggravating factors. When he drove after his driver
license had been suspended, the accused acted with
a selfish motive, that is, to serve his own personal
convenience. ABA Standard 9.22(b). The accused
also engaged in a pattern of misconduct by re-
peatedly committing multiple criminal offenses.
ABA Standard 9.22(c). In addition, the accused has
substantial experience in the practice of law, having
been admitted to the Bar in 1976. ABA Standard
9.22(i). Finally, we agree with the trial panel that
the accused has failed to appreciate the seriousness
of his misconduct. ABA Standard 9.22(g).
[5][6][7] In mitigation, we first note that chem-
ical dependency, including alcoholism, can operate
as a mitigating factor when the accused lawyer
shows that (1) there is medical evidence that such a
dependency exists; (2) the dependency *45 caused
the misconduct; (3) the accused lawyer has accom-
plished a meaningful and sustained period of recov-
ery from such dependency; and (4) the recovery ar-
rested the misconduct, and recurrence of the mis-
conduct is unlikely. ABA Standard 9.32(i)
(amended 1992); see In re Murdock, 328 Or. 18,
29–30, 968 P.2d 1270 (1998) (discussing those
factors). In this proceeding, we determine that the
accused has provided medical evidence that he suf-
fers from alcoholism. However, because a number
of the accused's criminal acts involved no use of al-
cohol at all, we cannot say that the accused's
struggle with alcoholism caused all his misconduct.
In addition, although the accused declares that he
now recognizes the need for treatment of his alco-
holism, the accused has not established that he has
accomplished a meaningful and sustained recovery
from his alcohol dependency. We therefore con-
clude that the mitigating factor of chemical depend-
ency is inapplicable to this proceeding.FN2
FN2. On review, the accused argues that
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the trial panel erred by admitting the testi-
mony of a number of witnesses whose
testimony related to the accused's use of
alcohol and his compliance with alcohol
treatment because, according to the ac-
cused, that testimony was not relevant to
any issue in the disciplinary proceeding.
See BR 5.1(a) (trial panel should exclude
irrelevant evidence in disciplinary hear-
ing). We disagree. Although that testimony
was not relevant to the issue whether the
accused had committed the alleged mis-
conduct, that evidence was relevant to the
issue of the appropriate sanction and, par-
ticularly, the existence of the mitigating
factor of chemical dependency. The trial
panel did not err by admitting that evid-
ence.
[8] We find the existence of several other mit-
igating factors. The accused has no prior disciplin-
ary record, ABA Standard 9.32(a), and he intro-
duced evidence that he has a reputation for honesty
in the legal community, ABA Standard 9.32(g). The
accused also cooperated during the disciplinary
proceeding, ABA Standard 9.32(e), and other pen-
alties have been imposed against the accused in the
form of criminal sanctions, ABA Standard 9.32(k).
In addition, in determining the appropriate sanction
for the accused's misconduct, we place diminished
weight upon the accused's criminal acts that oc-
curred in 1983, 1984, and 1985, because of the
lengthy **312 delay between the time that the ac-
cused committed those criminal offenses and the
Bar's pursuit of disciplinary proceedings. See ABA
Standard 9.32(j) (amended 1992) (delay in discip-
linary proceedings is mitigating factor).
*46 We now turn to a consideration of the ap-
propriate sanction in light of this court's case law.
The accused argues that this court should craft a
sanction to address the accused's alcohol depend-
ency by imposing a period of probation with the
condition that the accused participate in alcohol
treatment. The Bar disagrees and contends that the
18–month suspension that the trial panel imposed is
the appropriate sanction.
[9] In considering the appropriate sanction for
disciplinary violations involving criminal conduct,
this court previously has observed that
“[p]roceedings for the discipline of an attorney
are not to punish the attorney for the commission
of a crime. That matter is left to the criminal
courts. The objects of the proceedings here are to
uphold the dignity and respect of the profession,
protect the courts, preserve the administration of
justice and protect clients.”
In re Carstens, 297 Or. 155, 166, 683 P.2d 992
(1984); see also Kimmell, 332 Or. at 488, 31 P.3d
414 (same).
To protect the public and to uphold the respect
of the legal profession, this court's case law demon-
strates that disbarment or a lengthy suspension gen-
erally is appropriate when a lawyer intentionally
has committed criminal acts in violation of DR
1–102(A)(2). See, e.g., In re Davenport, 334 Or.
298, 49 P.3d 91, modified and adh'd to on recons.,
335 Or. 67, 57 P.3d 897 (2002) (accused lawyer
suspended for two years for false statements under
oath in violation of DR 1–102(A)(2), among other
violations); In re Albrecht, 333 Or. 520, 42 P.3d
887 (2002) (accused lawyer disbarred for participa-
tion in criminal money laundering scheme in viola-
tion of DR 1–102(A)(2), among other violations);
In re Gustafson, 333 Or. 468, 41 P.3d 1063 (2002)
(accused lawyer disbarred for false testimony under
oath and violating juvenile expungement order in
violation of DR 1–102(A)(2), among other viola-
tions); In re Kirkman, 313 Or. 181, 830 P.2d 206
(1992) (accused lawyer disbarred for forgery, false
declaration, and bigamy in violation of DR
1–102(A)(2) and DR 1–102(A)(3)).
In Kimmell, 332 Or. 480, 31 P.3d 414, this
court imposed a six-month suspension upon an ac-
cused lawyer who had committed a single act of
second-degree theft. In imposing that *47 sanction,
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the court stated that it considered theft, even theft
that did not involve a violation of a fiduciary duty,
to be a serious act of misconduct that demonstrated
a disrespect for the law. Id. at 491, 31 P.3d 414.
The court further noted that, in that case, the ac-
cused lawyer had acted intentionally and that mul-
tiple aggravating factors, but only one mitigating
factor, applied. Id. at 488–90, 31 P.3d 414.
In In re Allen, 326 Or. 107, 949 P.2d 710
(1997), this court imposed a one-year suspension
upon an accused lawyer who had committed crim-
inal acts of attempted possession of a controlled
substance and aiding and abetting another in the
commission of a crime. In doing so, the court em-
phasized that it was convinced that the accused
lawyer's misconduct was an aberration that was in-
consistent with the accused lawyer's general good
character and that similar misconduct was unlikely
to reoccur. Id. at 130, 949 P.2d 710. The court also
stressed that, in that case, the mitigating factors
substantially outweighed the aggravating factors.
Id. Nevertheless, in light of the seriousness of his
criminal conduct and, particularly, the fact that the
accused lawyer's misconduct had contributed to the
death of another person, the court concluded that a
lengthy suspension was warranted. Id. at 130–31,
949 P.2d 710.
Unlike the accused lawyers either in Kimmell
or in Allen, the accused here engaged in criminal
conduct time and time again. The accused's re-
peated criminal acts and, particularly, his refusal to
abide by sanctions imposed for his criminal con-
duct, reflect a substantial disrespect for the law. In
addition, although his misconduct here did not cul-
minate in such serious consequences to others as
did the accused lawyer's misconduct in Allen, the
accused's conduct on October 11, **313 1998,
risked serious bodily harm to Wardell, and, every
time that he chose to drive while intoxicated, the
accused risked serious harm to the public. Unlike
the accused lawyer in Allen, the accused also acted
with a selfish motive, that is, to avoid his own per-
sonal inconvenience, when he repeatedly drove
when his driver license was suspended. In addition,
as noted, we agree with the trial panel that the ac-
cused has failed to appreciate the seriousness of his
misconduct.
Although a number of mitigating factors also
apply in this proceeding, we find that the above lis-
ted aggravating *48 factors outweigh those mitigat-
ing factors. The accused's repeated criminal acts
persuade us that the accused presently lacks good
moral character and fitness to practice law. We
agree with the trial panel that the appropriate sanc-
tion is a suspension from the practice of law for a
period of 18 months.
The accused is suspended from the practice of
law for a period of 18 months, effective 60 days
from the filing of this decision.
Or.,2003.
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Supreme Court of Oregon.
En Banc.
EMERALD STEEL FABRICATORS, INC., Peti-
tioner on Review,
v.
BUREAU OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIES, Re-
spondent on Review.
(BOLI 3004; CA A130422; SC S056265).
Argued and Submitted March 6, 2009.
Decided April 15, 2010.
Background: Employer sought review of decision
of Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI), conclud-
ing that employer engaged in disability discrimina-
tion when it discharged employee due to employ-
ee's medical marijuana use. The Court of Appeals,
220 Or.App. 423, 186 P.3d 300, affirmed. Employ-
er filed petition for review.
Holdings: The Supreme Court, Kistler, J., held
that:
(1] employer preserved for review claim that state
law did not require accommodation of employee's
medical marijuana use because marijuana posses-
sion is unlawful under federal law;
(2] employee currently engaged in the illegal use of
drugs is not entitled to reasonable accommodation;
(3] provision of Oregon Medical Marijuana Act af-
firmatively authorizing the use of medical
marijuana was preempted by Federal Controlled
Substances Act, which explicitly prohibited
marijuana use without regard to medicinal purpose;
and
(4] exclusion from the definition of “illegal use of
drugs” for the “use of a drug taken under supervi-
sion of a licensed health care professional” refers to
those medical and research uses that the Controlled
Substances Act authorizes.
Reversed.
Walters, J., dissented and filed opinion, in
which Durham, J., joined.
West Headnotes
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Employer, seeking review of decision of Bur-
eau of Labor and Industries (BOLI), concluding
that employer engaged in disability discrimination
when it discharged employee for medical marijuana
use, preserved for judicial review claim that state
law did not require accommodation of employee's
medical marijuana use because marijuana posses-
sion is unlawful under federal law; employer ar-
gued before agency that Oregon discrimination law
was to be construed consistently with the Federal
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and that
the ADA did not permit the use of marijuana be-
cause marijuana was an illegal drug under federal
law, employer's further developing argument would
have been futile in light of controlling precedent,
and ALJ chose to reopen record to address employ-
er's federal law preemption arguments following
United States Supreme Court's opinion in Gonzales
v. Raich. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990,
§ 2 et seq., 42 U.S.C.A. § 12101 et seq.; West's
Or.Rev. Stat. Ann. § 659A.112.
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tion proceedings before the Bureau of Labor and
Industries (BOLI) that controlling Court of Appeals
precedent foreclosed its affirmative defenses, did
not limit itself, for purposes of issue preservation,
to the defenses asserted by the losing party in the
prior case; employer reasonably acknowledged that
the reasoning in the prior case controlled the related
but separate defenses that it was raising, and em-
ployer did not say that it was advancing the same
issues asserted in the prior case.
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Employee currently engaged in the illegal use
of drugs is not entitled to reasonable accommoda-
tion. West's Or.Rev. Stat. Ann. §§ 659A.112,
659A.124.
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To the extent that provision of Oregon Medical
Marijuana Act affirmatively authorized the use of
medical marijuana, such provision was preempted
by Federal Controlled Substances Act, which expli-
citly prohibited marijuana use without regard to
medicinal purpose. Controlled Substances Act, §§
202(c), 401(a)(1), 21 U.S.C.A. §§ 812(c), 841(a)(1)
; West's Or.Rev. Stat. Ann. § 475.306(1).
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structure and purpose.
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of the statute indicates that Congress intended fed-
eral law to occupy the legislative field, or if there is
an actual conflict between state and federal law.
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When addressing questions of express or im-
plied pre-emption, courts begin their analysis with
the assumption that the historic police powers of
the States are not to be superseded by the federal
act unless that was the clear and manifest purpose
of Congress.
[9] Controlled Substances 96H 5
96H Controlled Substances
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Central objectives of the Federal Controlled
Substances Act were to conquer drug abuse and to
control the legitimate and illegitimate traffic in con-
trolled substances; congress was particularly con-
cerned with the need to prevent the diversion of
drugs from legitimate to illicit channels. Controlled
Substances Act, § 101 et seq., 21 U.S.C.A. § 801 et
seq.
[10] States 360 4.16(3)
360 States
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Congress lacks the authority to compel a state
to criminalize conduct, no matter how explicitly it
directs a state to do so; when, however, a state af-
firmatively authorizes conduct, Congress has the
authority to preempt that law.
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Disability discrimination law's exclusion from
the definition of “illegal use of drugs” for the “use
of a drug taken under supervision of a licensed
health care professional” refers to those medical
and research uses that the Controlled Substances
Act authorizes. Controlled Substances Act, § 101 et
seq., 21 U.S.C.A. § 801 et seq.; West's Or.Rev.
Stat. Ann. § 659A.122(2).
West Codenotes
PreemptedWest's Or.Rev. Stat. Ann. § 475.306(1)
**519 On review from the Court of Appeals.FN*
FN* Appeal from Revised Order on Re-
consideration dated July 13, 2006, of the
Bureau of Labor and Industries. 220
Or.App. 423, 186 P.3d 300 (2008).
Terence J. Hammons, of Hammons & Mills, Eu-
gene, argued the cause and filed the brief for peti-
tioner on review.
Janet A. Metcalf, Assistant Attorney General,
Salem, argued the cause and filed the brief for re-
spondent on review. With her on the brief were
John R. Kroger, Attorney General, and Erika L.
Hadlock, Acting Solicitor General.
Paula A. Barran, of Barran Liebman LLP, Portland,
filed the brief for amicus curiae Associated Oregon
Industries.
James N. Westwood, of Stoel Rives LLP, Portland,
filed the brief for amici curiae Pacific Legal Found-
ation and National Federation of Independent Busi-
ness. With him on the brief was Deborah J. La
Fetra.
KISTLER, J.
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*161 The Oregon Medical Marijuana Act au-
thorizes persons holding a registry identification
card to use marijuana for medical purposes. ORS
475.306(1). It also exempts those persons from
state criminal liability for **520 manufacturing, de-
livering, and possessing marijuana, provided that
certain conditions are met. ORS 475.309(1). The
Federal Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. § 801
et seq., prohibits the manufacture, distribution, dis-
pensation, and possession of marijuana even when
state law authorizes its use to treat medical condi-
tions. Gonzales v. Raich, 545 U.S. 1, 29, 125 S.Ct.
2195, 162 L.Ed.2d 1 (2005); see United States v.
Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative, 532 U.S.
483, 486, 121 S.Ct. 1711, 149 L.Ed.2d 722 (2001)
(holding that there is no medical necessity excep-
tion to the federal prohibition against manufactur-
ing and distributing marijuana).
The question that this case poses is how those
state and federal laws intersect in the context of an
employment discrimination claim; specifically, em-
ployer argues that, because marijuana possession is
unlawful under federal law, even when used for
medical purposes, state law does not require an em-
ployer to accommodate an employee's use of
marijuana to treat a disabling medical condition.
The Court of Appeals declined to reach that ques-
tion, reasoning that employer had not preserved it.
Emerald Steel Fabricators, Inc. v. BOLI, 220
Or.App. 423, 186 P.3d 300 (2008). We allowed em-
ployer's petition for review and hold initially that
employer preserved the question that it sought to
raise in the Court of Appeals. We also hold that,
under Oregon's employment discrimination laws,
employer was not required to accommodate em-
ployee's use of medical marijuana. Accordingly, we
reverse the Court of Appeals decision.
Since 1992, employee has experienced anxiety,
panic attacks, nausea, vomiting, and severe stomach
cramps, all of which have substantially limited his
ability to eat. Between January 1996 and November
2001, employee used a variety of prescription drugs
in an attempt to alleviate that condition. None of
those drugs proved effective for an extended period
of time, and some had negative effects. In 1996,
*162 employee began using marijuana to self-
medicate his condition.
In April 2002, employee consulted with a phys-
ician for the purpose of obtaining a registry identi-
fication card under the Oregon Medical Marijuana
Act. The physician signed a statement that employ-
ee has a “debilitating medical condition” and that
“[m]arijuana may mitigate the symptoms or effects
of this patient's condition.” The statement added,
however, “This is not a prescription for the use of
medical marijuana.” The statement that employee's
physician signed tracks the terms of the Oregon
Medical Marijuana Act. That act directs the state to
issue registry identification cards to persons when a
physician states that “the person has been dia-
gnosed with a debilitating medical condition and
that the medical use of marijuana may mitigate the
symptoms or effects” of that condition. ORS
475.309(2).FN1
No prescription is required as a
prerequisite for obtaining a registry identification
card. See id.
FN1. The 2001 version of the applicable
statutes was in effect at the time of the
events that gave rise to this proceeding.
Since 2001, the legislature has amended
those statutes but not in ways that affect
our decision, and we have cited to the 2009
version of the statutes.
Based on the physician's statement, employee
obtained a registry identification card in June 2002,
which he renewed in 2003.FN2
That card author-
ized employee to “engage in * * * the medical use
of marijuana” subject to certain restrictions. ORS
475.306(1). Possession of the card also exempted
him from state criminal prosecution for the posses-
sion, distribution, and manufacture of marijuana,
provided that he met certain conditions. ORS
475.309(1).
FN2. ORS 475.309(7)(a)(C) requires a per-
son possessing a registry identification
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card to submit annually “[u]pdated written
documentation from the cardholder's at-
tending physician of the person's debilitat-
ing medical condition and that the medical
use of marijuana may mitigate the symp-
toms or effects” of that condition. If the
person fails to do so, the card “shall be
deemed expired.” ORS 475.309(7)(b).
Employer manufactures steel products. In Janu-
ary 2003, employer hired employee on a temporary
basis as a drill press operator. While working for
employer, employee used medical marijuana one to
three times per day, although not at work. Employ-
ee's work was satisfactory, and employer was con-
sidering hiring him on a permanent basis. **521
Knowing *163 that he would have to pass a drug
test as a condition of permanent employment, em-
ployee told his supervisor that he had a registry
identification card and that he used marijuana for a
medical problem; he also showed his supervisor
documentation from his physician. In response to a
question from his supervisor, employee said that he
had tried other medications but that marijuana was
the most effective way to treat his condition.
Neither employee's supervisor nor anyone else in
management engaged in any other discussion with
employee regarding alternative treatments for his
condition. One week later, the supervisor dis-
charged employee.
Two months later, employee filed a complaint
with the Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI), al-
leging that employer had discriminated against him
in violation of ORS 659A.112. That statute prohib-
its discrimination against an otherwise qualified
person because of a disability and requires, among
other things, that employers “make reasonable ac-
commodation” for a person's disability unless doing
so would impose an undue hardship on the employ-
er. ORS 659A.112(2)(e). Having investigated em-
ployee's complaint, BOLI filed formal charges
against employer, alleging that employer had dis-
charged employee because of his disability in viola-
tion of ORS 659A.112(2)(c) and (g) and that em-
ployer had failed to reasonably accommodate em-
ployee's disability in violation of ORS
659A.112(2)(e) and (f). Employer filed an answer
and raised seven affirmative defenses.
After hearing the parties' evidence, an adminis-
trative law judge (ALJ) issued a proposed order in
which he found that employee was a disabled per-
son within the meaning of ORS chapter 659A but
that employer had not discharged employee because
of his disability. The ALJ found instead that em-
ployer had discharged employee because he used
marijuana and ruled that discharging employee for
that reason did not violate ORS 659A.112(2)(c) or
(g). The ALJ went on to rule, however, that em-
ployer had violated ORS 659A.112(2)(e) and (f),
which prohibit an employer from failing to reason-
ably accommodate the “known physical or mental
limitations of an otherwise qualified disabled per-
son,” and from denying employment opportunities
to an otherwise *164 qualified disabled person
when the denial is based on the failure “to make
reasonable accommodation to the physical or men-
tal impairments of the employee.”
Among other things, the ALJ ruled that em-
ployer's failure to engage in a “meaningful interact-
ive process” with employee, standing alone, viol-
ated the obligation set out in ORS 659A.112(2)(e)
and (f) to reasonably accommodate employee's dis-
ability. The ALJ also found that employee had
suffered damages as a result of those violations,
and the commissioner of BOLI issued a final order
that adopted the ALJ's findings in that regard.
[1] Employer sought review of the commis-
sioner's order in the Court of Appeals. As we un-
derstand employer's argument in the Court of Ap-
peals, it ran as follows: Oregon law requires that
ORS 659A.112 be interpreted consistently with the
federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42
USC § 12101 et seq. Section 12114(a) of the ADA
provides that the protections of the ADA do not ap-
ply to persons who are currently engaged in the il-
legal use of drugs, and the federal Controlled Sub-
stances Act prohibits the possession of marijuana
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without regard to whether it is used for medicinal
purposes. It follows, employer reasoned, that the
ADA does not apply to persons who are currently
engaged in the use of medical marijuana. Like the
ADA, ORS 659A.124 provides that the protections
of ORS 659A.112 do not apply to persons who are
currently engaged in the illegal use of drugs. Em-
ployer reasoned that, if ORS 659A.112 is inter-
preted consistently with the ADA, then ORS
659A.112 also does not apply to persons who are
currently engaged in medical marijuana use. Em-
ployer added that, in any event, the United States
Supreme Court's opinion in Raich and the Suprem-
acy Clause required that interpretation.
The Court of Appeals did not reach the merits
of employer's argument. It concluded that employer
had not presented that argument to the agency and
thus had not preserved it. Accordingly, we begin
with the question whether employer preserved the
issues**522 before BOLI that it sought to raise in
the Court of Appeals.
Employer raised seven affirmative defenses in
response to BOLI's complaint. The fifth affirmative
defense alleged:
*165 “Oregon law prescribes that ORS
659A.112 be construed to the extent possible in a
manner that is consistent with any similar provi-
sions of the Federal Americans with Disabilities
Act of 1990, as amended. That Act does not per-
mit the use of marijuana because marijuana is an
illegal drug under Federal Law.”
That affirmative defense is broad enough to en-
compass the argument that employer made in the
Court of Appeals. To be sure, employer's fifth af-
firmative defense does not refer specifically to ORS
659A.124. However, it alleges that the ADA does
not apply to persons who use marijuana, a proposi-
tion that necessarily depends on both 42 USC §
12114(a), the federal counterpart to ORS 659A.124,
and the Controlled Substances Act. And the fifth af-
firmative defense also states that ORS 659A.112
should be construed in the same manner as the
ADA. Although employer could have been more
specific, its fifth affirmative defense is sufficient to
raise the statutory issue that it sought to argue in
the Court of Appeals.FN3
FN3. BOLI points to nothing in its rules
that suggests that more specificity was re-
quired. Cf. OAR 839–050–0130 (providing
only that affirmative defenses must be
raised or waived).
Ordinarily, we would expect that employer
would have developed the legal arguments in sup-
port of its fifth affirmative defense more fully at the
agency hearing. However, the Court of Appeals is-
sued its decision in Washburn v. Columbia Forest
Products, Inc., 197 Or.App. 104, 104 P.3d 609
(2005), two weeks before the hearing in this case,
and employer concluded that the reasoning in
Washburn foreclosed its fifth affirmative defense.
The Court of Appeals held in Washburn that an em-
ployer's failure to accommodate an employee's use
of medical marijuana violated ORS 659A.112. In
reaching that holding, the Court of Appeals decided
two propositions that bore on the validity of em-
ployer's fifth affirmative defense. First, it reasoned
that the requirement in ORS 659A.139 to interpret
ORS 659A.112 consistently with the ADA does not
require absolute symmetry between state and feder-
al law. Id. at 109–10, 104 P.3d 609. Second, it held
that, as a matter of state law, the employee's medic-
al use of marijuana was “not unlawful” for the pur-
poses of a federal statute that prohibits the use of il-
legal drugs in the workplace. Id. at 114–15, 104
P.3d 609. The court noted that the question
“[w]hether medical use of marijuana is unlawful
under federal law is an open question” *166 and
that the United States Supreme Court had granted
the government's petition for certiorari in Raich to
decide that question. Id. at 115 n. 8, 104 P.3d 609.
At the hearing in this case, employer told the
ALJ that five of its affirmative defenses (including
the fifth affirmative defense) were “foreclosed by
the Washburn decision” but that it was “not with-
drawing them.” Employer did not explain the basis
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for that position. We note, however, that the Court
of Appeals' conclusion in Washburn that ORS
659A.139 does not require absolute symmetry
between the state and federal antidiscrimination
statutes and its conclusion that medical marijuana
use is “not unlawful” under state law effectively
foreclosed reliance on ORS 659A.139 and ORS
659A.124 as a basis for employer's fifth affirmative
defense. There would be little point in arguing be-
fore the ALJ that employee was currently engaged
in the illegal use of drugs if, as the Court of Ap-
peals had just stated in Washburn, the use of medic-
al marijuana is not illegal.FN4
The ALJ issued a
proposed order in which it ruled that the Court of
Appeals decision in Washburn controlled, among
other things, employer's fifth affirmative defense.
FN4. To be sure, the Court of Appeals re-
served the question in Washburn whether
the use of medical marijuana is unlawful
under federal law, but that did not detain it
from holding that the employer in that case
had an obligation under ORS 659A.112 to
accommodate the employee's use of medic-
al marijuana. Given Washburn's holding,
employer reasonably conceded its con-
trolling effect until, as noted below, the
Supreme Court issued its decision in
Raich.
**523 After the ALJ filed his proposed order,
the United States Supreme Court issued its decision
in Raich and held that Congress had acted within its
authority under the Commerce Clause in prohibit-
ing the possession, manufacture, and distribution of
marijuana even when state law authorizes its use
for medical purposes. 545 U.S. at 33, 125 S.Ct.
2195. Raich addressed the question that the Court
of Appeals had described in Washburn as
open—whether using marijuana, even for medical
purposes, is unlawful under federal law. Employer
filed a supplemental exception based on Raich and
alternatively a request to reopen the record to con-
sider Raich. Employer argued that, as a result of
Raich, “states may not authorize the use of
marijuana for medicinal purposes” and that “[t]he
impact of this decision is that *167 [employer]
should prevail on its Fourth and Fifth Affirmative
Defenses.”
BOLI responded that the ALJ should not re-
open the record. It reasoned that Raich did not in-
validate Oregon's medical marijuana law and that,
in any event, employer could have raised a preemp-
tion argument before the Court issued its decision
in Raich. Employer replied that, as it read Raich,
the “Supreme Court has ruled that legalization of
marijuana is preempted by federal law. This obvi-
ously invalidates the Oregon Medical Marijuana
Act.” Employer also explained that it had raised
this issue in its fourth and fifth affirmative de-
fenses, which “recite[d] that marijuana is an illegal
drug under federal law, and that state law deferred
to federal law.” After considering the parties' argu-
ments, the ALJ allowed employer's motion to re-
open the record, stating that “[t]he forum will con-
sider the Supreme Court's ruling in Raich to the ex-
tent that it is relevant to [employer's] case.” Later,
the Commissioner ruled that the Controlled Sub-
stances Act, which was at issue in Raich, did not
preempt the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act.
As we read the record, employer took the posi-
tion before the agency that, like the protections of
the federal ADA, the protections of ORS 659A.112
do not apply to a person engaged in the use of illeg-
al drugs, a phrase that, as a result of controlling
federal law, includes the use of medical marijuana.
We conclude that employer's arguments were suffi-
cient to preserve the issue that it sought to raise on
judicial review in the Court of Appeals. To be sure,
employer's fifth affirmative defense, as pleaded,
turned solely on a question of statutory interpreta-
tion. Employer did not raise the preemption issue or
argue that federal law required a particular reading
of Oregon's statutes until employer asked the ALJ
to reopen the record to consider Raich. Perhaps the
ALJ could have declined to reopen the record.
However, once the ALJ chose to reopen the record
and the Commissioner chose to address employer's
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preemption arguments based on Raich, then em-
ployer's federal preemption arguments were also
properly before the agency.FN5
FN5. After the Commissioner issued his fi-
nal order in this case, this court reversed
the Court of Appeals decision in Washburn
. Washburn v. Columbia Forest Products,
Inc., 340 Or. 469, 480, 134 P.3d 161
(2006). This court held that the employee
in Washburn was not a disabled person
within the meaning of ORS chapter 659A.
Id. at 479, 134 P.3d 161. Given that hold-
ing, this court did not reach the other is-
sues that the Court of Appeals had ad-
dressed in Washburn. After this court's de-
cision in Washburn, the commissioner
withdrew the final order and issued a re-
vised order on reconsideration, adhering to
his earlier resolution of employer's affirm-
ative defenses in this case.
168 As noted, the Court of Appeals reached a
different conclusion regarding preservation, and we
address its reasoning briefly. The Court of Appeals
reasoned that, in telling the ALJ that Washburn
foreclosed its affirmative defenses, employer adop-
ted the specific defenses that the employer in Wash-
burn had asserted and that employer was now lim-
ited to those defenses. 220 Or.App. at 437, 186
P.3d 300. The difficulty, the Court of Appeals ex-
plained, was that the statutory issues that employer
had raised in its affirmative defenses and sought to
raise on judicial review differed from the issues that
the employer had raised in Washburn. Id.
In our view, the Court of Appeals misperceived
the import of what employer told the ALJ. Employ-
er reasonably acknowledged that the reasoning in
Washburn controlled the related but separate de-
fenses that it was **524 raising in this case. Em-
ployer did not say that it was advancing the same
issues that the employer had asserted in Washburn,
and the Court of Appeals erred in holding other-
wise.
The Court of Appeals also concluded that em-
ployer had not preserved its argument regarding the
preemptive effect of the Controlled Substances Act,
as interpreted in Raich. Emerald Steel, 220 Or.App.
at 437–38, 186 P.3d 300. It noted that, on judicial
review, employer argued that federal law required
its interpretation of Oregon's antidiscrimination
statutes while it had argued before the agency that
federal law preempted the Oregon Medical
Marijuana Act. Id. We read the record differently.
As explained above, employer made both argu-
ments before the agency.FN6
FN6. As noted, employer moved to reopen
the record on the ground that, as a result of
Raich, “states may not authorize the use of
marijuana for medicinal purposes” and that
“[t]he impact of this decision is that
[employer] should prevail on its Fourth
and Fifth Affirmative Defenses.” Employer
thus told the agency that the Controlled
Substances Act, as interpreted in Raich,
compelled its interpretation of Oregon's
antidiscrimination statutes. Additionally, in
response to BOLI's arguments, employer
contended that the Controlled Substances
Act preempted the Oregon Medical
Marijuana Act.
*169 Having concluded that employer pre-
served the issues it sought to raise on judicial re-
view, we turn to the merits of those issues.FN7
Em-
ployer's statutory argument begins with ORS
659A.124(1), which provides that “the protections
of ORS 659A.112 do not apply to any * * * em-
ployee who is currently engaging in the illegal use
of drugs if the employer takes action based on that
conduct.”FN8
It follows, employer reasons, that it
had no obligation under ORS 659A.112(2)(e) and
(f) to reasonably accommodate employee's medical
marijuana use. In responding to that argument on
the merits, BOLI does not dispute that employee
was currently engaged in the use of medical
marijuana, nor does it dispute that employer dis-
charged employee for that reason. Rather, BOLI ad-
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vances two arguments why ORS 659A.124 does not
support employer's position.
FN7. We note that both California and
Washington have considered whether their
state medical marijuana laws give medical
marijuana users either a claim under Cali-
fornia's fair employment law or an implied
right of action under Washington law
against an employer that discharges or re-
fuses to hire a person for off-work medical
marijuana use. See Roe v. TeleTech Cus-
tomer Care Management, 152 Wash.App.
388, 216 P.3d 1055 (2009); Ross v. Ra-
gingWire Telecommunications, Inc., 42
Cal.4th 920, 70 Cal.Rptr.3d 382, 174 P.3d
200 (2008). Both the California and Wash-
ington courts have held that, in enacting
their states' medical marijuana laws, the
voters did not intend to affect an employ-
er's ability to take adverse employment ac-
tions based on the use of medical
marijuana. Roe, 216 P.3d at 1058–61;
Ross, 70 Cal.Rptr.3d 382, 174 P.3d at 204.
Accordingly, in both Washington and Cali-
fornia, employers do not have to accom-
modate their employees' off-site medical
marijuana use. We reach the same conclu-
sion, although our analysis differs because
Oregon has chosen to write its laws differ-
ently.
FN8. ORS 659A.124 lists exceptions to
that rule, none of which applies here. See
ORS 659A.124(2) (recognizing exceptions
for persons who either are participating in
or have successfully completed a super-
vised drug rehabilitation program and are
no longer engaging in the illegal use of
drugs).
[3] As we understand BOLI's first argument, it
contends that, because the commissioner found that
employer had violated ORS 659A.112(2)(e) and (f)
by failing to engage in a “meaningful interactive
process,” ORS 659A.124 is inapposite. We reach
precisely the opposite conclusion. The commission-
er explained that engaging in a “meaningful inter-
active process” is the “mandatory first step in the
process of reasonable accommodation” that ORS
659A.112(2)(e) and (f) require. However, ORS
659A.124 provides that “the protections of ORS
659A.112 do not apply” to an employee who is cur-
rently engaged in the illegal use of drugs, if the em-
ployer *170 takes an adverse action based on that
use. Under the plain terms of ORS 659A.124, if
medical marijuana use is an illegal use of drugs
within the meaning of ORS 659A.124, then ORS
659A.124 excused employer from whatever obliga-
tion it would have had under ORS 659A.112 to en-
gage in a “meaningful interactive process” or other-
wise accommodate employee's use of medical
marijuana.
BOLI advances a second, alternative argument.
It argues that “employee's use of medical marijuana
was entirely legal under **525 state law” and thus
not an “illegal use of drugs” within the meaning of
ORS 659A.124. BOLI recognizes, as it must, that
the federal Controlled Substances Act prohibits
possession of marijuana even when used for medic-
al purposes. BOLI's argument rests on the assump-
tion that the phrase “illegal use of drugs” in ORS
659A.124 does not include uses that are legal under
state law even though those same uses are illegal as
a matter of federal law. BOLI never identifies the
basis for that assumption; however, a state statute
defines the phrase “illegal use of drugs,” as used in
ORS 659A.124, and we turn to that statute for guid-
ance in resolving BOLI's second argument.
ORS 659A.122 provides, in part:
“As used in this section and ORS 659A.124,
659A.127 and 659A.130:
“ * * * * *
“(2) ‘Illegal use of drugs' means any use of
drugs, the possession or distribution of which is
unlawful under state law or under the federal
Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C.A. 812, as
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amended, but does not include the use of a drug
taken under supervision of a licensed health care
professional, or other uses authorized under the
Controlled Substances Act or under other provi-
sions of state or federal law.”FN9
FN9. Before 2009, former ORS 659A.100
(4) (2001) defined the phrase “illegal use
of drugs.” In 2009, the legislature re-
numbered that definition as ORS
659A.122(2).
The definition of “illegal use of drugs” divides
into two parts. The first part defines the drugs that
are included within the definition—all drugs whose
use or possession is unlawful under state or federal
law. Marijuana clearly falls within the *171 first
part of the definition. The second part of the defini-
tion excludes certain uses of what would otherwise
be an illegal use of a drug. Two exclusions are po-
tentially applicable here: (1) the exclusion for “uses
authorized under * * * other provisions of state * *
* law” and (2) the exclusion for “the use of a drug
taken under supervision of a licensed health care
professional.” We consider each exclusion in turn.
We begin with the question whether employ-
ee's use of medical marijuana is a “us[e] authorized
under * * * other provisions of state * * * law.” We
conclude that, as a matter of statutory interpreta-
tion, it is an authorized use. The Oregon Medical
Marijuana Act affirmatively authorizes the use of
medical marijuana, in addition to exempting its use
from state criminal liability. Specifically, ORS
475.306(1) provides that “[a] person who possesses
a registry identification card * * * may engage in *
* * the medical use of marijuana” subject to certain
restrictions. ORS 475.302(10), in turn, defines a re-
gistry identification card as “a document * * * that
identifies a person authorized to engage in the med-
ical use of marijuana.” Reading those two subsec-
tions together, we conclude that ORS 475.306(1)
affirmatively authorizes the use of marijuana for
medical purposesFN10
and, as a statutory matter,
brings the use of medical marijuana within one of
the exclusions from the “illegal use of drugs” in
ORS 659A.122(2).FN11
FN10. The ballot title for the Oregon Med-
ical Marijuana Act confirms that interpret-
ation of the act. See State v. Gaines, 346
Or. 160, 172, 206 P.3d 1042 (2009)
(looking to legislative history to confirm
text). The caption, “yes” vote result state-
ment, and summary of the ballot title fo-
cused on the fact that the measure, if en-
acted, would allow permit-holders to use
medical marijuana and referred to the ex-
emption from criminal laws only at the end
of the summary. Official Voters' Pamphlet,
Nov 3, 1998, 148. The caption stated that
the measure “[a]llows medical use of
marijuana within limits; establishes permit
system.” The “yes” vote result statement
was to the same effect, and the summary
stated that current law prohibits the posses-
sion and manufacture of marijuana but that
the measure “allows engaging in, assisting
in, medical use of marijuana.” Id. Only at
the end of the summary did the ballot title
add that the measure “excepts permit hold-
er or applicant from marijuana criminal
statutes.” Id.
FN11. The Oregon Medical Marijuana Act
also exempts medical marijuana use from
state criminal liability. See ORS
475.309(1) (excepting persons holding re-
gistry identification cards from certain
state criminal prohibitions); ORS 475.319
(creating an affirmative defense to certain
criminal prohibitions for persons who do
not hold registry identification cards but
who have complied with the conditions ne-
cessary to obtain one). Because ORS
659A.122(2) excludes from the definition
of illegal use of drugs only those uses au-
thorized by state law, the provisions of the
Oregon Medical Marijuana Act that are
relevant here are those provisions that af-
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firmatively authorize the use of medical
marijuana, as opposed to those provisions
that exempt its use from criminal liability.
**526 172 Employer argues, however, that the
Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution
requires that we interpret Oregon's statutes consist-
ently with the federal Controlled Substances Act.
We understand employer's point to be that, to the
extent that ORS 475.306(1) affirmatively author-
izes the use of medical marijuana, federal law pree-
mpts that subsection and that, without any effective
state law authorizing the use of medical marijuana,
employee's use of that drug was an “illegal use of
drugs” within the meaning of ORS 659A.124.FN12
We turn to that question and begin by setting out
the general principles that govern preemption. We
then discuss the federal Controlled Substances Act
and finally turn to whether the Controlled Sub-
stances Act preempts the Oregon Medical
Marijuana Act to the extent that state law affirmat-
ively authorizes the use of medical marijuana.
FN12. The only issue that employer's pree-
mption argument raises is whether federal
law preempts ORS 475.306(1) to the extent
that it authorizes the use of medical
marijuana. In holding that federal law does
preempt that subsection, we do not hold
that federal law preempts the other sec-
tions of the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act
that exempt medical marijuana use from
criminal liability. We also express no opin-
ion on the question whether the legislature,
if it chose to do so and worded Oregon's
disability law differently, could require
employers to reasonably accommodate dis-
abled employees who use medical
marijuana to treat their disability. Rather,
our opinion arises from and is limited to
the laws that the Oregon legislature has en-
acted.
[5][6][7][8] The United States Supreme Court
recently summarized the general principles govern-
ing preemption:
“Our inquiry into the scope of a statute's pre-
emptive effect is guided by the rule that ‘ “[t]he
purpose of Congress is the ultimate touchstone”
in every pre-emption case.’ Medtronic, Inc. v.
Lohr, 518 U.S. 470, 485, 116 S.Ct. 2240, 135
L.Ed.2d 700 (1996) (quoting Retail Clerks v.
Schermerhorn, 375 U.S. 96, 103, 84 S.Ct. 219, 11
L.Ed.2d 179 (1963)). Congress may indicate a
pre-emptive intent through a statute's express lan-
guage or through its structure and purpose. See
Jones v. Rath Packing Co., 430 U.S. 519, 525, 97
S.Ct. 1305, 51 L.Ed.2d 604 (1977). * * * Pre-
emptive intent may also be inferred if the scope
of the statute indicates that Congress intended
federal law to occupy the legislative field, or if
there is an actual conflict between state and *173
federal law. Freightliner Corp. v. Myrick, 514
U.S. 280, 287, 115 S.Ct. 1483, 131 L.Ed.2d 385
(1995).
“When addressing questions of express or im-
plied pre-emption, we begin our analysis ‘with
the assumption that the historic police powers of
the States [are] not to be superseded by the Fed-
eral Act unless that was the clear and manifest
purpose of Congress.’ Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator
Corp., 331 U.S. 218, 230, 67 S.Ct. 1146, 91
L.Ed. 1447 (1947).”
Altria Group, Inc. v. Good, ––– U.S. ––––,
––––, 129 S.Ct. 538, 543, 172 L.Ed.2d 398 (2008).
[9] With those principles in mind, we turn to
the Controlled Substances Act. The central object-
ives of that act “were to conquer drug abuse and to
control the legitimate and illegitimate traffic in con-
trolled substances. Congress was particularly con-
cerned with the need to prevent the diversion of
drugs from legitimate to illicit channels.” Raich,
545 U.S. at 12–13, 125 S.Ct. 2195 (footnotes omit-
ted). To accomplish those objectives, Congress cre-
ated a comprehensive, closed regulatory regime that
criminalizes the unauthorized manufacture, distri-
bution, dispensation, and possession of controlled
substances classified in five schedules. Id. at 13,
125 S.Ct. 2195.
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The Court has explained that:
“Schedule I drugs are categorized as such be-
cause of their high potential for abuse, lack of
any accepted medical use, and absence of any ac-
cepted safety for use in medically supervised
treatment. [21 U.S.C.] § 812(b)(1). These three
factors, in varying gradations, are also used to
categorize drugs in the other four schedules. For
example, Schedule II substances also have a high
potential for abuse which may lead to severe psy-
chological**527 or physical dependence, but un-
like Schedule I drugs, they have a currently ac-
cepted medical use. [21 U.S.C.] § 812(b).”
Id. at 14, 125 S.Ct. 2195. Consistent with Con-
gress's determination that the controlled substances
listed in Schedule II through V have currently ac-
cepted medical uses, the Controlled Substances Act
authorizes physicians to prescribe those substances
for medical use, provided that they do so within the
bounds of professional practice. See United States
v. Moore, 423 U.S. 122, 142–43, 96 S.Ct. 335, 46
L.Ed.2d 333 (1975).FN13
By contrast, *174 be-
cause Schedule I controlled substances lack any ac-
cepted medical use, federal law prohibits all use of
those drugs “with the sole exception being use of
[Schedule I] drug[s] as part of a Food and Drug Ad-
ministration preapproved research project.” Raich,
545 U.S. at 14, 125 S.Ct. 2195; see 21 U.S.C. §
823(f) (recognizing that exception for the use of
Schedule I drugs).
FN13. Two subsections of the Controlled
Substances Act accomplish that result.
Section 823(f) directs the Attorney General
to register physicians and other practition-
ers to dispense controlled substances listed
in Schedule II through V. 21 U.S.C. §
823(f). Section 822(b) authorizes persons
registered with the Attorney General to
dispense controlled substances “to the ex-
tent authorized by their registration and in
conformity with the other provisions of
this subchapter.” 21 U.S.C. § 822(b).
Congress has classified marijuana as a Sched-
ule I drug, 21 U.S.C. § 812(c), and federal law pro-
hibits its manufacture, distribution, and possession,
21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). Categorizing marijuana as a
Schedule I drug reflects Congress's conclusion that
marijuana “lack[s] any accepted medical use, and
[that there is an] absence of any accepted safety for
use in medically supervised treatment.” Raich, 545
U.S. at 14, 125 S.Ct. 2195 (citing 21 U.S.C. §
812(b)(1)). Consistently with that classification, the
Court has concluded that the Controlled Substances
Act does not contain a “medical necessity” excep-
tion that permits the manufacture, distribution, or
possession of marijuana for medical treatment.
Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative, 532 U.S.
at 494 and n. 7, 121 S.Ct. 1711.FN14
Despite ef-
forts to reclassify marijuana, it has remained a
Schedule I drug since the enactment of the Con-
trolled Substances Act. See Raich, 545 U.S. at
14–15 and n. 23, 125 S.Ct. 2195 (summarizing
“considerable efforts,” ultimately unsuccessful, to
reschedule marijuana).
FN14. The specific question in Oakland
Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative was wheth-
er there was a medical necessity exception
for manufacturing and distributing
marijuana. The Court explained, however,
that, “[l]est there be any confusion, we cla-
rify that nothing in our analysis, or the
statute, suggests that a distinction should
be drawn between the prohibitions on man-
ufacturing and distributing and the other
prohibitions in the Controlled Substances
Act.” 532 U.S. at 494 n. 7, 121 S.Ct. 1711.
Section 903 of the Controlled Substances Act
addresses the relationship between that act and state
law. It provides:
“No provision of this subchapter shall be con-
strued as indicating an intent on the part of the
Congress to occupy the field in which that provi-
sion operates, including criminal penalties, to the
exclusion of any State law on the same *175 sub-
ject matter which would otherwise be within the
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authority of the State, unless there is a positive
conflict between that provision of this subchapter
and that State law so that the two cannot consist-
ently stand together.”
21 U.S.C. § 903. Under the terms of section
903, states are free to pass laws “on the same sub-
ject matter” as the Controlled Substances Act un-
less there is a “positive conflict” between state and
federal law “so that the two cannot consistently
stand together.”
When faced with a comparable preemption pro-
vision, the Court recently engaged in an implied
preemption analysis to determine whether a federal
statute preempted state law. Wyeth v. Levine, –––
U.S. ––––, ––––, 129 S.Ct. 1187, 1196–1200, 173
L.Ed.2d 51 (2009).FN15
That is, the Court asked
whether **528 there is an “actual conflict” between
state and federal law. An actual conflict will exist
either when it is physically impossible to comply
with both state and federal law or when state law “
‘stands as an obstacle to the accomplishment and
execution of the full purposes and objectives of
Congress.’ ” Freightliner Corp., 514 U.S. at 287,
115 S.Ct. 1483 (quoting Hines v. Davidowitz, 312
U.S. 52, 67, 61 S.Ct. 399, 85 L.Ed. 581 (1941)).
FN15. The provision at issue in Wyeth
provided that the federal statute did not
preempt state law unless there was a
“direct and positive” conflict between state
and federal law. Wyeth, 129 S.Ct. at 1196.
At first blush, one might think that the
Court would have looked to the standard
that Congress had expressly
provided—whether there is a “direct and
positive conflict” between the state and
federal laws—to determine the extent to
which federal law preempts state law. See
Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc., 505 U.S.
504, 517, 112 S.Ct. 2608, 120 L.Ed.2d 407
(1992) (holding that the preemptive effect
of a federal act is “governed entirely” by
an express preemption provision). Implied
preemption, however, addresses a similar
issue, and the Court used an implied pree-
mption analysis in Wyeth without any dis-
cussion. 129 S.Ct. at 1196–1200. Given
Wyeth, we follow a similar course here.
The Court has applied the physical impossibil-
ity prong narrowly. Wyeth, 129 S.Ct. at 1199 (so
stating); id. at 1209 (Thomas, J., concurring in the
judgment).FN16
For example, in *176Barnett Bank
v. Nelson, 517 U.S. 25, 116 S.Ct. 1103, 134
L.Ed.2d 237 (1996), the question was whether “a
federal statute that permits national banks to sell in-
surance in small towns pre-empts a state statute that
forbids them to do so.” Id. at 27, 116 S.Ct. 1103.
Although the two statutes were logically inconsist-
ent, the Court held that it was not physically im-
possible to comply with both. Id. at 31, 116 S.Ct.
1103. A national bank could simply refrain from
selling insurance. See Wyeth, 129 S.Ct. at 1209
(Thomas, J., concurring in the judgment)
(explaining physical impossibility test).
FN16. Justice Thomas noted that the Court
had used different formulations to explain
when it would be physically impossible to
comply with both state and federal laws
and questioned whether the Court had ap-
plied that standard too strictly. Wyeth, 129
S.Ct. at 1208–09 (opinion concurring in
the judgment). In his view, the physical
impossibility test is too narrow, and asking
whether state law stands as an obstacle to
the purposes of the federal law too
amorphous. He would have asked whether
the state and federal law are in direct con-
flict. Id.; see Caleb Nelson, Preemption,
86 Va. L. Rev. 225, 260–61 (2000)
(reasoning that historically and practically
preemption reduces to a “logical contradic-
tion” test).
Under that reasoning, it is not physically im-
possible to comply with both the Oregon Medical
Marijuana Act and the federal Controlled Sub-
stances Act. To be sure, the two laws are logically
inconsistent; state law authorizes what federal law
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prohibits. However, a person can comply with both
laws by refraining from any use of marijuana, in
much the same way that a national bank could com-
ply with state and federal law in Barnett Bank by
simply refraining from selling insurance.
Because the “physical impossibility” prong of
implied preemption is “vanishingly narrow,” Caleb
Nelson, Preemption, 86 Va. L. Rev. 225, 228
(2000), the Court's decisions typically have turned
on the second prong of implied preemption analys-
is—whether state law “stands as an obstacle to the
accomplishment and execution of the full purposes
and objectives of Congress.” See Hines, 312 U.S. at
67, 61 S.Ct. 399 (stating test). In Barnett Bank, for
example, the Court stated, as a self-evident proposi-
tion, that a state law that prohibited national banks
from selling insurance when federal law permitted
them to do so would stand as an obstacle to the full
accomplishment of Congress's purpose, but it then
added “unless, of course, that federal purpose is to
grant [national] bank[s] only a very limited permis-
sion, that is, permission to sell insurance to the ex-
tent that state law also grants permission to do so.”
Barnett Bank, 517 U.S. at 31, 116 S.Ct. 1103
(emphasis in original). Having considered the text
and history of the federal statute and finding no
basis for implying such a limited permission, the
Court held that the state statute was preempted. Id.
at 35–37, 116 S.Ct. 1103.
*177 The Court has reached the same conclu-
sion when, as in this case, state law permits what
federal law prohibits. Michigan Canners & Freez-
ers Association v. Agricultural Marketing and Bar-
gaining Bd., 467 U.S. 461, 104 S.Ct. 2518, 81
L.Ed.2d 399 (1984). In Michigan Canners, federal
law prohibited food producers' associations from
interfering with an individual food producer's de-
cision whether to bring that individual's products to
the market on his or her own or to sell them through
the association. Id. at 464–65, 104 S.Ct. 2518.
Michigan law on this issue generally tracked feder-
al law; however, Michigan law permitted food pro-
ducers' associations to apply to a state board for au-
thority **529 to act as the exclusive bargaining
agent for all producers of a particular commodity.
Id. at 466, 104 S.Ct. 2518. When the state board
gave a producer's association that authority, all pro-
ducers of a commodity had to adhere to the terms
of the contracts that the association negotiated with
food processors, even when the producer had de-
clined to join the association. Id. at 467–68, 104
S.Ct. 2518.
In considering whether federal law preempted
the Michigan law, the Court held initially that it
was physically possible to comply with both state
and federal law. The Court reasoned that, because
the “Michigan Act is cast in permissive rather than
mandatory terms—an association may, but need
not, act as exclusive bargaining representat-
ive—this is not a case in which it is [physically]
impossible for an individual to comply with both
state and federal law.” Id. at 478 n. 21, 104 S.Ct.
2518 (emphasis in original). The Court went on to
conclude, however, that “because the Michigan Act
authorizes producers' associations to engage in con-
duct that the federal Act forbids, it ‘stands as an
obstacle to the accomplishment and execution of
the full purposes and objectives of Congress.’ ” Id.
at 478, 104 S.Ct. 2518 (quoting Hines, 312 U.S. at
67, 61 S.Ct. 399).
The preemption issue in this case is similar to
the issue in Michigan Canners and Barnett Bank. In
this case, ORS 475.306(1) affirmatively authorizes
the use of medical marijuana. The Controlled Sub-
stances Act, however, prohibits the use of
marijuana without regard to whether it is used for
medicinal purposes. As the Supreme Court has re-
cognized, by classifying marijuana as a Schedule I
drug, Congress has expressed its judgment that
marijuana has no recognized medical use. See
Raich, 545 U.S. at 14, 125 S.Ct. 2195. Congress did
not intend to enact a limited prohibition on the use
of *178 marijuana— i.e., to prohibit the use of
marijuana unless states chose to authorize its use
for medical purposes. Cf. Barnett Bank, 517 U.S. at
31–35, 116 S.Ct. 1103 (reaching a similar conclu-
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sion regarding the scope of the national bank act).
Rather, Congress imposed a blanket federal prohib-
ition on the use of marijuana without regard to state
permission to use marijuana for medical purposes.
Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative, 532 U.S.
at 494 & n. 7, 121 S.Ct. 1711.
Affirmatively authorizing a use that federal law
prohibits stands as an obstacle to the implementa-
tion and execution of the full purposes and object-
ives of the Controlled Substances Act. Michigan
Canners, 467 U.S. at 478, 104 S.Ct. 2518. To be
sure, state law does not prevent the federal govern-
ment from enforcing its marijuana laws against
medical marijuana users in Oregon if the federal
government chooses to do so. But the state law at
issue in Michigan Canners did not prevent the fed-
eral government from seeking injunctive and other
relief to enforce the federal prohibition in that case.
Rather, state law stood as an obstacle to the en-
forcement of federal law in Michigan Canners be-
cause state law affirmatively authorized the very
conduct that federal law prohibited, as it does in
this case.
To the extent that ORS 475.306(1) affirmat-
ively authorizes the use of medical marijuana, fed-
eral law preempts that subsection, leaving it
“without effect.” See Cipollone v. Liggett Group,
Inc., 505 U.S. 504, 516, 112 S.Ct. 2608, 120
L.Ed.2d 407 (1992) (“[S]ince our decision in Mc-
Culloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheat. 316, 427 [4 L.Ed.
579] (1819), it has been settled that state law that
conflicts with federal law is ‘without effect.’ ”).
Because ORS 475.306(1) was not enforceable when
employer discharged employee, no enforceable
state law either authorized employee's use of
marijuana or excluded its use from the “illegal use
of drugs,” as that phrase is defined in ORS
659A.122(2) and used in ORS 659A.124. It follows
that BOLI could not rely on the exclusion in ORS
659A.122(2) for “uses authorized * * * under other
provisions of state * * * law” to conclude that med-
ical marijuana use was not an illegal use of drugs
within the meaning of ORS 659A.124.
*179 The commissioner reached a different
conclusion regarding preemption, as would the dis-
senting opinion. We address the commissioner's
reasoning before turning to the dissent. The com-
missioner, for his part, adopted the reasoning from
an informal Attorney General opinion, dated June
17, 2005, **530 which concluded that the Con-
trolled Substances Act does not invalidate the Ore-
gon Medical Marijuana Act. Letter of Advice dated
June 17, 2005, to Susan M. Allan, Public Health
Direction, Department of Human Services. In
reaching that conclusion, the Attorney General fo-
cused on those parts of the Oregon Medical
Marijuana Act that either exempt medical
marijuana users from state criminal liability or
provide an affirmative defense to criminal charges.
Id. at 2.FN17
In concluding that those exemptions
from state criminal liability were valid, the Attor-
ney General relied on a line of federal cases hold-
ing that “Congress cannot compel the States to en-
act or enforce a federal regulatory program.” See
Printz v. United States, 521 U.S. 898, 935, 117
S.Ct. 2365, 138 L.Ed.2d 914 (1997) (so stating);
New York v. United States, 505 U.S. 144, 162, 112
S.Ct. 2408, 120 L.Ed.2d 120 (1992) (stating that
“the Constitution has never been understood to con-
fer upon Congress the ability to require the States
to govern according to Congress's instructions”).
The Attorney General concluded that Oregon was
free, as a matter of state law, to exempt medical
marijuana use from criminal liability because Con-
gress lacks the authority to require Oregon to pro-
hibit that use.
FN17. The Attorney General's opinion
stated that the Oregon Medical Marijuana
Act “protects users who comply with its
requirements from state criminal prosecu-
tion for production, possession, or delivery
of a controlled substance.” Letter Opinion
at 2. In support of that statement, the opin-
ion cited former ORS 475.306(2) (2003),
which provided an affirmative defense for
persons who possessed excess amounts of
marijuana if possession of that amount of
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marijuana were medically necessary. See
Or. Laws 2005, ch. 822, § 2 (repealing that
provision). The opinion also cited ORS
475.319 and ORS 475.309(9), which
provides an affirmative defense to criminal
liability for persons who have applied for
but not yet received a registry identifica-
tion card.
The Attorney General's opinion has no bearing
on the issue presented in this case for two reasons.
First, as noted, one subsection of the Oregon Med-
ical Marijuana Act affirmatively authorizes the use
of medical marijuana. *180ORS 475.306(1). Other
provisions exempt its use from state criminal liabil-
ity. See, e.g., ORS 475.309(1); ORS 475.319. In
this case, only the validity of the authorization mat-
ters. ORS 659A.122(2) excludes medical marijuana
use from the definition of “illegal use of drugs” for
the purposes of the state employment discrimina-
tion laws if state law authorizes that use. The Attor-
ney General's opinion, however, addresses only the
validity of the exemptions; it does not address the
validity of the authorization found in ORS
475.306(1). It thus does not address the issue that is
central to the resolution of this case.
Second, and more importantly, the validity of
the exemptions and the validity of the authorization
turn on different constitutional principles. The At-
torney General reasoned that the exemptions from
criminal liability are valid because “Congress can-
not compel the States to enact or enforce a federal
regulatory program”—a restriction that derives
from Congress's limited authority under the federal
constitution. See Printz, 521 U.S. at 935, 117 S.Ct.
2365 (stating limited authority); New York, 505
U.S. at 161–66, 112 S.Ct. 2408 (describing the
sources of that limitation). Under the Attorney Gen-
eral's reasoning and the United States Supreme
Court decisions on which his opinion relies, Con-
gress lacks authority to require states to criminalize
conduct that the states choose to leave unregulated,
no matter how explicitly Congress directs the states
to do so.
By contrast, there is no dispute that Congress
has the authority under the Supremacy Clause to
preempt state laws that affirmatively authorize the
use of medical marijuana. Whether Congress has
exercised that authority turns on congressional in-
tent: that is, did Congress intend to preempt the
state law? See Cipollone, 505 U.S. at 516, 112 S.Ct.
2608 (describing preemption doctrine). More spe-
cifically, the constitutional question in this case is
whether, under the doctrine of implied preemption,
a state law authorizing the use of medical marijuana
“stands as an obstacle to the accomplishment and
execution of the full purposes and objectives of
Congress.” See Hines, 312 U.S. at 67, 61 S.Ct. 399
(stating that test). Nothing in the Attorney General's
opinion addresses that question, and the commis-
sioner erred in finding an answer in the Attorney
*181 General's opinion**531 to a question that the
Attorney General never addressed.
The dissent addresses the issue that the Attor-
ney General's opinion did not and would hold for
alternative reasons that ORS 475.306(1) does not
stand as an obstacle to the full accomplishment of
Congress's purposes in enacting the Controlled
Substances Act. The dissent reasons that, because
ORS 475.306(1) does not “giv[e] permission to vi-
olate the Controlled Substances Act or affec [t] its
enforcement, [that subsection] does not pose an
obstacle to the federal act necessitating a finding of
implied preemption.” 348 Or. at 197, 230 P.3d at
539 (Walters, J., dissenting).FN18
In the dissent's
view, the fact that a state law affirmatively author-
izes conduct that federal law explicitly forbids is
not sufficient to find that the state law poses an
obstacle to the full accomplishment of the purposes
of the federal law and is thus preempted. The dis-
sent also advances what appears to be an alternative
basis for its position. It reasons that the Oregon
Medical Marijuana Act, as a whole, exempts med-
ical marijuana use from state criminal liability and
that ORS 475.306(1) is merely one part of that lar-
ger exemption. It appears to draw two different leg-
al conclusions from that alternative proposition. It
suggests that, to the extent ORS 475.306(1) merely
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exempts medical marijuana use from criminal liab-
ility, then Congress lacks power to require states to
criminalize that conduct under the line of cases that
the Attorney General cited. Alternatively, it sug-
gests that, because authorization is merely the other
side of the coin from exemption, authorizing med-
ical marijuana use poses no more of an obstacle to
the accomplishment of the purposes of the Con-
trolled Substances Act than exempting that use
from state criminal liability and thus that use is not
preempted. We begin with the test that the dissent
would employ in obstacle preemption cases.
FN18. The dissent phrases the test it would
apply in various ways throughout its opin-
ion. For instance, it begins its opinion by
stating that the Oregon Medical Marijuana
Act neither “permits [n]or requires the vi-
olation of the Controlled Substances Act.”
348 Or. at 190, 230 P.3d at 536 (Walters,
J., dissenting). Because the Oregon Medic-
al Marijuana Act permits (and indeed au-
thorizes) conduct that violates the Con-
trolled Substances Act, we understand the
dissent to use the word “permits” to mean
expressly purports to “giv[e] permission,”
as it later rephrases its test. We also note
that, if the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act
“required” a violation of federal law, then
the physical impossibility prong of implied
preemption would apply.
*182 As noted, the dissent would hold that a
state law stands as an obstacle to the execution and
accomplishment of the full purposes of a federal
law (and is thus preempted) if the state law purports
to override federal law either by giving permission
to violate the federal law or by preventing the fed-
eral government from enforcing its laws. We do not
disagree that such a law would be an obstacle. But
it does not follow that anything less is not an
obstacle. Specifically, we disagree with the dis-
sent's view that a state law that specifically author-
izes conduct that a federal law expressly forbids
does not pose an obstacle to the full accomplish-
ment of the purposes of the federal law and is not
preempted.
If Congress chose to prohibit anyone under the
age of 21 from driving, states could not authorize
anyone over the age of 16 to drive and give them a
license to do so. The state law would stand as an
obstacle to the accomplishment of the full purposes
and objectives of Congress (keeping everyone un-
der the age of 21 off the road) and would be pree-
mpted. Or, to use a different example, if federal law
prohibited all sale and possession of alcohol, a state
law licensing the sale of alcohol and authorizing its
use would stand as an obstacle to the full accom-
plishment of Congress's purposes. ORS 475.306(1)
is no different. To the extent that ORS 475.306(1)
authorizes persons holding medical marijuana li-
censes to engage in conduct that the Controlled
Substances Act explicitly prohibits, it poses the
same obstacle to the full accomplishment of Con-
gress's purposes (preventing all use of marijuana,
including medical uses).
The dissent, however, reasons that one state
case and four federal cases support its view of
obstacle preemption. It reads State v. Rodriguez,
317 Or. 27, 854 P.2d 399 (1993), as providing dir-
ect support for its view. See 348 Or. at 197–98, 230
P.3d at 539–40 (Walters, J., dissenting). In Rodrig-
uez, federal **532 Immigration and Naturalization
Service (INS) agents obtained evidence pursuant to
a federal administrative warrant that was valid un-
der federal law but not under the Oregon Constitu-
tion, and the question was whether suppressing
evidence obtained pursuant to that warrant in a
*183 state criminal proceeding was an obstacle to
the accomplishment of the full purposes and object-
ives of the federal immigration laws. This court
held that it was not. Suppressing evidence in the
state criminal proceeding was completely unrelated
to the INS's ability to carry out its separate mission
of enforcing the federal immigration laws in a fed-
eral administrative proceeding. This court did not
hold in Rodriguez, as the dissent appears to con-
clude, that state law will be an obstacle to the full
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accomplishment of the purposes of the federal law
only if state law interferes with the federal govern-
ment's ability to enforce its laws.
The dissent also relies on four United States
Supreme Court cases “for the proposition that states
may impose standards of conduct different from
those imposed by federal law without creating an
obstacle to the federal law.” 348 Or. at 199, 230
P.3d at 541 (Walters, J., dissenting). It follows, the
dissent reasons, that the mere fact that state law au-
thorizes conduct that federal law forbids does not
mean that state law is an obstacle to the accom-
plishment of the purposes of the federal law. The
four cases on which the dissent relies stand for a
narrower proposition than the dissent draws from
them. In interpreting the applicable federal statute
in each of those cases, the Court concluded that
Congress intended to leave states free to impose
complementary or supplemental regulations on a
person's conduct. None of those cases holds that
states can authorize their citizens to engage in con-
duct that Congress explicitly has forbidden, as ORS
475.306(1) does.
In Wyeth, one of the cases on which the dissent
relies, the defendant argued that permitting state
tort remedies based on a drug manufacturer's failure
to warn would “interfere with ‘Congress's purpose
to entrust an expert agency to make drug labeling
decisions that strike a balance between competing
objectives.’ ” 129 S.Ct. at 1199 (quoting the de-
fendant's argument). After considering the history
of the federal statute, the Court concluded that
“Congress did not intend FDA oversight to be the
exclusive means of ensuring drug safety and effect-
iveness.” Id. at 1200. The Court concluded instead
that Congress intended to allow complementary
state tort remedies. Id. Given that interpretation of
the federal law, the Court determined that the state
tort remedy *184 was consistent with, and not an
obstacle to, Congress's purpose in requiring warn-
ings in the first place. Put differently, the state law
was not an obstacle to Congress's purpose because
Congress intended to permit states to continue en-
forcing complementary tort remedies.
The Court's opinion in Florida Lime & Avo-
cado Growers, Inc. v. Paul, 373 U.S. 132, 83 S.Ct.
1210, 10 L.Ed.2d 248 (1963), on which the dissent
also relies, is to the same effect. In that case, the
Court determined that a federal marketing order set-
ting minimum standards for picking, processing,
and transporting avocados did not reflect a congres-
sional intent to prevent states from enacting laws
governing “the distribution and retail sale of those
commodities.” 373 U.S. at 145, 83 S.Ct. 1210. As
the Court explained, “[c]ongressional regulation at
one end of the stream of commerce does not, ipso
facto, oust all state regulation at the other end.” Id.
The Court accordingly concluded that there was
“no irreconcilable conflict with the federal regula-
tion [that] require[d] a conclusion that [the state
law] was displaced.” Id. at 146, 83 S.Ct. 1210.FN19
The Court's reasoning implies that, when, as
in this case, there is an irreconcilable conflict
between **533 state and federal law, that conflict
“requires a conclusion that [the state law] [i]s dis-
placed.” See id.
FN19. The dissenting opinion quotes the
dissent in Florida Lime & Avocado for the
proposition that the conflict between state
and federal law in that case was unmistak-
able. See 348 Or. at 200–02, 230 P.3d at
541–42 (Walters, J., dissenting) (quoting
Florida Lime & Avocado, 373 U.S. at 173,
83 S.Ct. 1210 (White, J., dissenting)). The
majority, however, disagreed on that point,
373 U.S. at 145–46, 83 S.Ct. 1210, and its
conclusion that federal law left room for
complementary state law was pivotal to its
conclusion that the federal marketing order
did not preempt California law.
In both Florida Lime & Avocado and Wyeth
and the other two cases the dissent cites, the Court
interpreted the applicable federal statute to permit
complementary or supplementary state law.FN20
None of those cases considered state *185 laws that
authorized conduct that the federal law specifically
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prohibited, as is present in this case, and none of
those cases stands for the proposition that such a
law would not be an obstacle to the accomplish-
ment of the full purposes of Congress. Rather, the
Court's opinion in Florida Lime & Avocado points
in precisely the opposite direction; it teaches that
when, as in this case, the state and federal laws are
in “irreconcilable conflict,” federal law will dis-
place state law. See 373 U.S. at 146, 83 S.Ct. 1210.
FN20. The other two United States Su-
preme Court cases on which the dissent re-
lies are to the same effect. Neither case in-
volved a federal statute that, as the Court
interpreted it, prohibited what the state law
authorized. See California v. ARC America
Corp., 490 U.S. 93, 103, 109 S.Ct. 1661,
104 L.Ed.2d 86 (1989) (explaining that
nothing in an earlier decision that only dir-
ect purchasers may bring an action under
section 4 of the Clayton Act “suggests that
it would be contrary to congressional pur-
poses for States to allow indirect pur-
chasers to recover under their own antitrust
laws”); Silkwood v. Kerr–McGee Corp.,
464 U.S. 238, 256, 104 S.Ct. 615, 78
L.Ed.2d 443 (1984) (holding that, even
though Congress “was well aware of the
NRC's exclusive authority to regulate
safety matters,” Congress also had
“assumed that state law remedies, in
whatever form they might take, were avail-
able to those injured in nuclear incidents”).
As noted, the dissent also advances what ap-
pears to be an alternative ground for its position.
The dissent reasons that ORS 475.306(1) does not
affirmatively authorize the use of medical
marijuana; it views that subsection instead as part
of a larger exemption of medical marijuana use
from state criminal laws. The dissent's reasoning is
difficult to square with the text of ORS 475.306(1).
That subsection provides that a person holding a re-
gistry identification card “may engage” in the lim-
ited use of medical marijuana. Those are words of
authorization, not exemption. Beyond that, if ORS
475.306(1) were merely part of a larger exemption,
then no provision of state law would authorize the
use of medical marijuana. If that were true, medical
marijuana use would not come within one of the ex-
clusions from the “illegal use of drugs,” as that
phrase is defined in ORS 659A.122, and the protec-
tions of ORS 659A.112 would not apply to employ-
ee. See ORS 659A.124 (so providing).FN21
FN21. There is a suggestion in the dissent
that ORS 475.306(1) is integral to the goal
of exempting medical marijuana use from
state criminal liability and cannot be
severed from the remainder of the Oregon
Medical Marijuana Act. That act, however,
contains an express severability clause,
and it is not apparent why the provisions
exempting medical marijuana use from
state criminal liability cannot “be given
full effect without [the authorization to use
medical marijuana found in ORS
475.306(1) ].” See Or. Laws 1999, ch. 4, §
18 (providing the terms for severing any
part of the act held invalid).
[10] Another thread runs through the dissent. It
reasons that, as a practical matter, authorizing med-
ical marijuana use is no different from exempting
that use from criminal liability. It concludes that, if
exempting medical marijuana use from criminal li-
ability is not an obstacle to the accomplishment of
the purposes of the Controlled Substances Act and
is *186 thus not preempted, then neither is a state
law authorizing medical marijuana use. The diffi-
culty with the dissent's reasoning is its premise. It
presumes that a law exempting medical marijuana
use from liability is valid because it is not preemp-
ted. As the Attorney General's opinion explained,
however, Congress lacks the authority to compel a
state to criminalize conduct, no matter how expli-
citly it directs a state to do so. When, however, a
state affirmatively authorizes conduct, Congress
has the authority to preempt that law and did so
here. The dissent's reasoning fails to distinguish
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those two analytically separate constitutional prin-
ciples.
In sum, whatever the wisdom of Congress's
policy choice to categorize marijuana as a Schedule
I drug, the Supremacy Clause requires that we re-
spect that choice when, as in this case, state law
stands as an obstacle to the accomplishment of the
full purposes of the federal law. Doing so means
that **534ORS 475.306(1) is not enforceable.
Without an enforceable state law authorizing em-
ployee's use of medical marijuana, that basis for ex-
cluding medical marijuana use from the phrase
“illegal use of drugs” in ORS 659A.122(2) is not
available.
[11] As noted, a second possible exclusion
from the definition of “illegal use of drugs” exists,
which we also address. The definition of “illegal
use of drugs” also excludes from that phrase “the
use of a drug taken under supervision of a licensed
health care professional.”FN22
ORS 659A.122(2).
On that issue, as noted above, employee's physician
signed a statement that employee had been dia-
gnosed with a debilitating condition, that marijuana
may mitigate the symptoms or effects of that condi-
tion, but that the physician's statement was not a
prescription to use marijuana. That statement was
sufficient under the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act
to permit *187 employee to obtain a registry identi-
fication card, which then permitted him to use
marijuana to treat his condition. Employee's physi-
cian recommended that employee use marijuana
five to seven times daily by inhalation. However,
without a prescription, employee's physician had no
ability to control either the amount of marijuana
that employee used or the frequency with which he
used it, if employee chose to disregard his physi-
cian's recommendation.
FN22. The commissioner did not consider
whether this exclusion applied, in part be-
cause the Court of Appeals had stated in
Washburn that the use of marijuana for
medical purposes was “not unlawful,”
which the parties and the commissioner
concluded was sufficient to answer em-
ployer's reliance on ORS 659A.124. Al-
though we could remand this case to the
commissioner to permit him to address
whether this exclusion applies, its applica-
tion in this case turns solely on an issue of
statutory interpretation, an issue on which
we owe the commissioner no deference. In
these circumstances, we see no need to re-
mand and unnecessarily prolong the resol-
ution of this case.
The question thus posed is whether employee
used marijuana “under supervision of a licensed
health care professional.” The answer to that ques-
tion turns initially on what a person must show to
come within that exclusion. As explained below,
we conclude that two criteria must be met to come
within the exclusion. As an initial matter, the
phrase “taken under supervision” of a licensed
health care professional implies that the health care
professional is monitoring or overseeing the pa-
tient's use of what would otherwise be an illegal
drug. See Webster's Third New Int'l Dictionary
2296 (unabridged ed. 2002) (defining supervise as
“coordinate, direct, and inspect continuously and at
first hand the accomplishment of” a task); cf.
Moore, 423 U.S. at 143, 96 S.Ct. 335 (holding that
a physician who prescribed methadone, a Schedule
II controlled substance, without regulating his pa-
tients' dosage and with no precautions against his
patients' misuse of methadone violated section 841
of the Controlled Substances Act).
Beyond supervision, when a health care profes-
sional administers a controlled substance, the ex-
clusion requires that the Controlled Substances Act
authorize him or her to do so. That follows from the
text and context of the definition of illegal use of
drugs set out in ORS 659A.122(2). After providing
that the illegal use of drugs does not include “the
use of a drug taken under supervision of a licensed
health care professional,” the legislature added “or
other uses authorized under the Controlled Sub-
stances Act.” The phrase “or other uses authorized
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by the Controlled Substances Act” is telling. The
words “other uses” imply that the preceding use
(the use of drugs taken under supervision of a li-
censed health care professional) also refers to a use
authorized by the Controlled Substances Act. See
Webster's at 1598 (defining “other” as “being the
one (as of two or more) left”).
*188 Not only does the text of ORS
659A.122(2) imply that the use of controlled sub-
stances taken under supervision of a licensed health
care professional refers to uses that the Controlled
Substances Act authorizes, but the context leads to
the same conclusion. See Stevens v. Czerniak, 336
Or. 392, 401, 84 P.3d 140 (2004) (explaining that
context includes “ ‘the preexisting common law and
the statutory framework within which the law was
enacted’ ”) (quoting Denton and Denton, 326 Or.
236, 241, 951 P.2d 693 (1998)). As noted, the Con-
trolled Substances Act both authorizes physicians
and other health care professionals to administer
**535 controlled substances for medical and re-
search purposes and defines the scope of their au-
thority to do so. See Moore, 423 U.S. at 138–40, 96
S.Ct. 335 (so holding). We infer that, in excluding
“the use of a drug taken under supervision of li-
censed health care professionals” from the phrase
“illegal use of drugs,” the legislature intended to
refer to those medical and research uses that, under
the Controlled Substances Act, physicians and other
health care professionals lawfully can put con-
trolled substances.
Another contextual clue points in the same dir-
ection. The exclusion in ORS 659A.122(2) for the
use of a drug taken under supervision of a licensed
health care professional is virtually identical to an
exclusion in the definition of illegal use of drugs
found in the ADA. See 42 U.S.C. § 12111(6)(A)
(excluding “the use of a drug taken under supervi-
sion by a licensed health care professional, or other
uses authorized by the Controlled Substances Act”).
The federal exclusion contemplates medical and re-
search uses that the Controlled Substances Act au-
thorizes, and there is no reason to think that, in ad-
opting the same exclusion, the Oregon legislature
had any different intent in mind. Cf. Stevens, 336
Or. at 402–03, 84 P.3d 140 (looking to the federal
counterpart to ORCP 36 to determine Oregon legis-
lature's intent). Given the text and context of ORS
659A.122(2), we conclude that, when a health care
professional administers a controlled substance, the
exclusion for the “use of a drug taken under super-
vision of a licensed health care professional” refers
to those medical and research uses that the Con-
trolled Substances Act authorizes.
*189 In sum, two criteria are necessary to come
within the exclusion for the use of a controlled sub-
stance taken under supervision of a licensed health
care professional: (1) the Controlled Substances
Act must authorize a licensed health care profes-
sional to prescribe or administer the controlled sub-
stance and (2) the health care professional must
monitor or supervise the patient's use of the con-
trolled substance. In this case, we need not decide
whether the evidence was sufficient to prove the
second criterion— i.e., whether employee's physi-
cian monitored or oversaw employee's use of
marijuana. Even if it were, the Controlled Sub-
stances Act did not authorize employee's physician
to administer (or authorize employee to use)
marijuana for medical purposes. As noted, under
the Controlled Substances Act, physicians may not
prescribe Schedule I controlled substances for med-
ical purposes. At most, a physician may administer
those substances only as part of a Food and Drug
Administration preapproved research project.FN23
Because there is no claim in this case that employee
and his physician were participating in such a
project, employee's use of marijuana was not taken
under supervision of a licensed health care profes-
sional, as that phrase is used in ORS 659A.122(2).
FN23. Gonzales v. Oregon, 546 U.S. 243,
126 S.Ct. 904, 163 L.Ed.2d 748 (2006),
addressed a different issue from the one
presented here. The Controlled Substances
Act provides that Schedule II controlled
substances have accepted medical uses,
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and the issue in Gonzales was whether the
Attorney General had exceeded his stat-
utory authority in defining which uses of
Schedule II controlled substances were le-
gitimate medical uses. In this case, by con-
trast, the Controlled Substances Act
provides that Schedule I controlled sub-
stances, such as marijuana, have no accep-
ted medical use. That congressional policy
choice both addresses and conclusively re-
solves the issue that the Attorney General
lacked statutory authority to address in
Gonzales.
Because employee did not take marijuana un-
der supervision of a licensed health care profession-
al and because the authorization to use marijuana
found in ORS 475.306(1) is unenforceable, it fol-
lows that employee was currently engaged in the il-
legal use of drugs and, as the commissioner found,
employer discharged employee for that reason. Un-
der the terms of ORS 659A.124, “the protections of
ORS 659A.112 do not apply” to employee. The
commissioner's final order on reconsideration rests,
however, on the premise *190 that the protections
of ORS 659A.112 —specifically, the requirement
for employer to engage in a “meaningful interactive
process” as an aspect of reasonable accommoda-
tion—do apply to employee. Under ORS 659A.124,
that premise is mistaken, and the commissioner's
revised order on reconsideration cannot stand. Both
the commissioner's order and the Court of Appeals
decision affirming **536 that order on procedural
grounds must be reversed.
Given the number of the issues discussed in
this opinion, we summarize the grounds for our de-
cision briefly. First, employer preserved its chal-
lenge that, as a result of the Controlled Substances
Act, the use of medical marijuana is an illegal use
of drugs within the meaning of ORS 659A.124.
Second, two potentially applicable exclusions from
the phrase “illegal use of drugs”—the use of drugs
authorized by state law and the use of drugs taken
under the supervision of a licensed health care pro-
fessional—do not apply here. Third, regarding the
first potentially applicable exclusion, to the extent
that ORS 475.306(1) authorizes the use of medical
marijuana, the Controlled Substances Act preempts
that subsection. We note that our holding in this re-
gard is limited to ORS 475.306(1); we do not hold
that the Controlled Substances Act preempts provi-
sions of the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act that ex-
empt the possession, manufacture, or distribution of
medical marijuana from state criminal liability.
Fourth, because employee was currently engaged in
the illegal use of drugs and employer discharged
him for that reason, the protections of ORS
659A.112, including the obligation to engage in a
meaningful interactive discussion, do not apply.
ORS 659A.124. It follows that BOLI erred in ruling
that employer violated ORS 659A.112.
The decision of the Court of Appeals and the
revised order on reconsideration of the Commis-
sioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries are re-
versed.
WALTERS, J., dissented and filed an opinion, in
which DURHAM, J., joined.
WALTERS, J., dissenting.
Neither the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act nor
any provision thereof permits or requires the viola-
tion of the Controlled Substances Act or affects or
precludes its enforcement. Therefore, neither the
Oregon act nor any provision thereof stands as an
obstacle to the federal act. Because the *191 major-
ity wrongly holds otherwise, and because, in doing
so, it wrongly limits this state's power to make its
own laws, I respectfully dissent.
The United States Constitution establishes a
system of dual sovereignty in which state and fed-
eral governments exercise concurrent authority over
the people. Printz v. United States, 521 U.S. 898,
920, 117 S.Ct. 2365, 138 L.Ed.2d 914 (1997). Each
government is supreme within its own sphere. Id. at
920–21, 117 S.Ct. 2365. In enacting the federal
Controlled Substances Act, which prohibits all use
of marijuana, Congress acted pursuant to its author-
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ity under the Commerce Clause. Gonzales v. Raich,
545 U.S. 1, 5, 125 S.Ct. 2195, 162 L.Ed.2d 1
(2005). In enacting the Oregon Medical Marijuana
Act, which permits the circumscribed use of medic-
al marijuana, Oregon acted pursuant to its historic
power to define state criminal law and to protect
the health, safety, and welfare of its citizens.
Whalen v. Roe, 429 U.S. 589, 603, 603 n. 30, 97
S.Ct. 869, 51 L.Ed.2d 64 (1977); Robinson v. Cali-
fornia, 370 U.S. 660, 664, 82 S.Ct. 1417, 8 L.Ed.2d
758 (1962).
In enacting the Controlled Substances Act,
Congress did not have the power to require Oregon
to adopt, as state criminal law, the policy choices
represented in that federal act. Congress does not
have the power to commandeer a state's legislative
processes by compelling it to enact or enforce fed-
eral laws. New York v. United States, 505 U.S. 144,
149, 112 S.Ct. 2408, 120 L.Ed.2d 120 (1992).
“[E]ven where Congress has the authority under the
Constitution to pass laws requiring or prohibiting
certain acts, it lacks the power directly to compel
the States to require or prohibit those acts.” Id. at
166, 112 S.Ct. 2408.
Because it had authority to enact the Controlled
Substances Act, Congress did, however, have the
power to expressly preempt state laws that conflict
with the Controlled Substances Act. A cornerstone
of the Supreme Court's Supremacy Clause analysis
is that “[i]n all pre-emption cases, and particularly
in those in which Congress has legislated in a field
which the States have traditionally occupied,” the
Court “start[s] with the assumption that the historic
police powers of the States were not to be super-
seded *192 by the Federal Act unless that was the
clear and **537 manifest purpose of Congress.”
Wyeth v. Levine, ––– U.S. ––––, ––––, 129 S.Ct.
1187, 1194–95, 173 L.Ed.2d 51 (2009) (internal el-
lipsis and quotation marks omitted). The Court re-
lies on that presumption out of “respect for the
States as independent sovereigns in our federal sys-
tem.” Id. at 1195 n. 3 (internal quotation marks
omitted).
As the majority recognizes, the Controlled Sub-
stances Act does not include an express preemption
provision. 348 Or. at 173–75, 230 P.3d at 526–27.
It contains, instead, “a saving clause” intended to
“preserve state law.” See Wyeth, 129 S.Ct. at 1196
(so construing nearly identical provision in Federal
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act). Thus, the majority
should begin its analysis “with the assumption that
the historic police powers [exercised by the State of
Oregon] were not to be superseded by the Federal
Act * * *.” Id. at 1194–95.
The majority does not do so. It instead implies,
from the federal policy choice that the Controlled
Substances Act represents, a Congressional intent
to preempt provisions of Oregon law that makes a
different policy choice. 348 Or. at 184, 230 P.3d at
532–33. To understand the majority's error in ap-
plying the “obstacle” prong of the United States Su-
preme Court's implied preemption analysis, it is im-
portant to understand the purposes and effects of
the federal and state laws that are at issue in this
case.
Congress enacted the federal Controlled Sub-
stances Act, as the majority explains, to “conquer
drug abuse” and “control” traffic in controlled sub-
stances. 348 Or. at 172–73, 230 P.3d at 526. In list-
ing marijuana as a Schedule I drug, Congress de-
cided that marijuana has no recognized medical
use. Therefore, “Congress imposed a blanket feder-
al prohibition” on the use of marijuana. 348 Or. at
178, 230 P.3d at 529. As noted, Congress did not
expressly indicate, however, that states could not
enact their own criminal drug laws or make differ-
ent decisions about the appropriate use of
marijuana.
Oregon did in fact enact its own criminal drug
laws, including the state Uniform Controlled Sub-
stances Act (*193ORS 475.005 to 475.285 and
ORS 475.840 to 475.980). That act controls and
punishes, as state criminal law, the use of all sub-
stances that the federal government classifies as
Schedule I drugs, including marijuana. ORS
475.840; ORS 475.856 – 475.864. Oregon also en-
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acted the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act. That act
exempts certain medical marijuana users from the
state criminal drug laws, including from the state
Uniform Controlled Substances Act. The Oregon
Medical Marijuana Act does not permit Oregonians
to violate the federal Controlled Substances Act or
bar the federal government from continuing to en-
force the federal Controlled Substances Act against
Oregonians. The Oregon Attorney General de-
scribed the purpose and reach of the Oregon Medic-
al Marijuana Act in a letter ruling:
“The Act protects medical marijuana users who
comply with its requirements from state criminal
prosecution for production, possession, or deliv-
ery of a controlled substance. See, e.g., ORS
475.306(2), 475.309(9) and 475.319. However,
the Act neither protects marijuana plants from
seizure nor individuals from prosecution if the
federal government chooses to take action against
patients or caregivers under the federal
[Controlled Substances Act]. The Act is explicit
in its scope: ‘Except as provided in ORS 475.316
and 475.342, a person engaged in or assisting in
the medical use of marijuana [in compliance with
the terms of the Act] is excepted from the crimin-
al laws of the state for possession, delivery or
production of marijuana, aiding and abetting an-
other in the possession, delivery or production of
marijuana or any other criminal offense in which
possession, delivery or production of marijuana is
an element * * *.’ ORS 475.309(1).”
Letter of Advice dated June 17, 2005, to Susan
M. Allen, Public Health Director, Department of
Human Services, 2 (first emphasis in original; later
emphases added).FN1
The **538 Oregon Attorney
General also concluded in that letter ruling *194
that the decision of the Supreme Court in Raich
—that Congress had authority to enact the blanket
prohibitions in the Controlled Substances Act—had
no effect on the validity of Oregon's statute:
FN1. Consistent with the Attorney Gener-
al's letter opinion, ORS 475.300(4)
provides that ORS 475.300 to 475.346
—the entirety of the Oregon Medical
Marijuana Act—is “intended to make only
those changes to existing Oregon laws that
are necessary to protect patients and their
doctors from criminal and civil penal-
ties[.]” (Emphasis added.)
“ Raich does not hold that state laws regulating
medical marijuana are invalid nor does it require
states to repeal existing medical marijuana laws.
Additionally, the case does not oblige states to
enforce federal laws. * * * The practical effect of
Raich in Oregon is to affirm what we have under-
stood to be the law since the adoption of the
Act.”FN2
FN2. The question that the Oregon Attor-
ney General answered in the letter opinion
was “Does Gonzales v. Raich, 545 U.S. [1,
125 S.Ct. 2195, 162 L.Ed.2d 1] (2005), * *
* invalidate the Oregon statutes authoriz-
ing the operation of the Oregon Medical
Marijuana Program?” The Attorney Gener-
al said, “No.” The Attorney General ex-
plained that “[t]he Act protects medical
marijuana users who comply with its re-
quirements from state criminal prosecution
for production, possession, or delivery of a
controlled substance,” and cited ORS
475.309, ORS 475.319, and ORS
475.306(2). At the time of the Attorney
General opinion, ORS 475.306(2) (2003)
provided:
“If the individuals described in subsec-
tion (1) of this section possess, deliver or
produce marijuana in excess of the
amounts allowed in subsection (1) of this
section, such individuals are not excep-
ted from the criminal laws of the state
but may establish an affirmative defense
to such charges, by a preponderance of
the evidence that the greater amount is
medically necessary to mitigate the
symptoms or effects of the person's de-
bilitating medical condition.”
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ORS 475.306(2) (2003), amended by Or.
Laws 2005, ch. 822, § 2 (emphasis ad-
ded). Thus, one of the subsections of the
Oregon Medical Marijuana Act that the
Attorney General cited used words of
authorization very similar to those used
in ORS 475.306(1).
Throughout the opinion, the Attorney
General discussed the continued validity
of the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act as
a whole and did not in any way differen-
tiate between provisions of the act that
authorize medical marijuana use and
those that create an exemption from state
prosecution. In fact, the Attorney Gener-
al specifically opined that the state is en-
titled to continue to issue registry identi-
fication cards—cards that, by definition,
are documents that identify persons “au-
thorized to engage in the medical use of
marijuana.” ORS 475.302(10) (emphasis
added).
Id. (emphasis in original).
The majority seems to accept that the Oregon
Medical Marijuana Act does not bar the federal
government from enforcing the Controlled Sub-
stances Act. The majority acknowledges that “state
law does not prevent the federal government from
enforcing its marijuana laws against medical
marijuana users in Oregon if the federal govern-
ment chooses to do so.” 348 Or. at 178, 230 P.3d at
529. The majority also seems to accept, as a result,
that provisions of the Oregon Medical Marijuana
Act that exempt persons from state criminal liabil-
ity do not pose an obstacle to the Controlled Sub-
stances Act.FN3
However, in the majority's view,
one subsection of the Oregon Medical *195
Marijuana Act, ORS 475.306(1), presents an
obstacle to the Controlled Substances Act and does
so solely because it includes words of authoriza-
tion. Id. at 178–79, 230 P.3d at 529–30.
FN3. The majority expressly leaves that
question open, however. 348 Or. at 172 n.
12, 230 P.3d at 526 n. 12.
As I will explain in more detail, I believe that
the majority is incorrect in reaching that conclu-
sion. First, the words of authorization used in ORS
475.306(1) and other subsections of the Oregon
Medical Marijuana Act serve only to make operable
the exceptions to and exemptions from state prosec-
ution provided in the remainder of the act. The
words of authorization used in those subsections do
not grant authorization to act that is not already in-
herent in the exceptions or exemptions, nor do they
permit the violation of federal law. Second, in in-
stances in which state law imposes standards of
conduct that are different than the standards of con-
duct imposed by federal law, but both laws can be
enforced, the Supreme Court has not held the state
laws to be obstacles to the federal laws, nor dis-
cerned an implied Congressional intent to preempt
the state laws from the different policy choices
made by the federal government. Thus, the majority
is incorrect in finding that the standard of conduct
and policy choice represented by the Controlled
Substances Act prohibits a different state standard
of conduct and policy choice. Both the Oregon
Medical Marijuana Act and the **539 Controlled
Substances Act can be enforced, and this state court
should not interpret the federal act to impliedly
preempt the state act.
The Oregon Medical Marijuana Act contains a
number of subsections that use words of authoriza-
tion. Those subsections are interwoven with the
subsections of the act that except and exempt med-
ical marijuana users from criminal liability. For in-
stance, ORS 475.309, which the majority cites as a
provision that excepts persons who use medical
marijuana from state criminal liability, 348 Or. at
179–80, 230 P.3d at 530, provides that a person en-
gaged in or assisting in the medical use of
marijuana “is excepted from the criminal laws of
the state” if *196 certain conditions, including hold-
ing a “ registry identification card, ” are satisfied.
(Emphases added.) ORS 475.302(10) defines
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“registry identification card” as follows:
“a document issued by the department that identi-
fies a person authorized to engage in the medical
use of marijuana and the person's designated
primary caregiver, if any.”
(Emphasis added.)
Consider also ORS 475.306(1), the section of
the act that the majority finds offending. That sub-
section references both ORS 475.309, the exception
section, and the registry identification card neces-
sary to that exception. ORS 475.306(1) provides:
“A person who possesses a registry identifica-
tion card issued pursuant to ORS 475.309 may
engage in, and a designated primary caregiver of
such person may assist in, the medical use of
marijuana only as justified to mitigate the symp-
toms or effects of the person's debilitating medic-
al condition.”FN4
FN4. The majority recognizes that it is es-
sential to read ORS 475.306(1) and ORS
475.302(10) together to find an affirmative
authorization to use marijuana for medicin-
al purposes. 348 Or. at 170–71, 230 P.3d at
525. However, the majority does not ex-
plain why it finds ORS 475.306(1) and not
ORS 475.302(10) preempted.
(Emphasis added.) Reading those three provi-
sions together, it is clear that ORS 475.306(1)
serves as a limitation on the use of medical
marijuana that the registry identification card and
ORS 475.309 together permit. Under ORS
475.306(1), a person who possesses a registry iden-
tification card issued pursuant to ORS 475.309 may
engage in the use the card permits “only as justified
to mitigate the symptoms or effects of the person's
debilitating medical condition.” (Emphasis added.)
ORS 475.319, another section of the act that
the majority cites as creating an exemption from
criminal liability, also depends on words of permis-
sion for its operation. 348 Or. at 179–80, 230 P.3d
at 530. ORS 475.319 creates an affirmative defense
to a criminal charge of possession of marijuana, but
only for persons who possess marijuana “in
amounts permitted under ORS 475.320.” (Emphasis
added.) ORS 475.320(1)(a) provides: “A registry
identification cardholder * * * may possess *197
up to six mature marijuana plants and 24 ounces of
usable marijuana.” (Emphasis added.)
The words of authorization used in ORS
475.306(1) are no different from the words of au-
thorization that are used in other sections of the act
and that are necessary to effectuate ORS 475.309
and ORS 475.319 and the exceptions to and exemp-
tions from criminal liability that they create. Those
words of authorization do not grant permission that
would not exist if those words were eliminated or
replaced with words of exception or exclusion.
Even if it did not use words of permission, the Ore-
gon Medical Marijuana Act would permit, for pur-
poses of Oregon law, the conduct that it does not
punish. Furthermore, the statutory sections that
provide that citizens may, for state law purposes,
engage in the conduct that the state will not punish
have no effect on the Controlled Substances Act
that is greater than the effect of the sections that de-
clare that the state will not punish that conduct.
Because neither the Oregon Medical Marijuana
Act nor any subsection thereof gives permission to
violate the Controlled Substances Act or affects its
enforcement, the Oregon act does not pose an
obstacle to the federal act necessitating a finding of
implied preemption. In State v. Rodriguez, 317 Or.
27, 854 P.2d 399 (1993), this court recognized
**540 that state and federal laws can prescribe dif-
ferent standards, each acting within its own author-
ity, without affecting the other's authority, and
without offending the Supremacy Clause. In that
case, the defendant had been arrested by federal im-
migration agents on a warrant that the state con-
ceded did not satisfy the oath or affirmation re-
quirement of Article I, section 9, of the Oregon
Constitution. The state argued, however, that, be-
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cause the warrant was valid under federal law, “the
Supremacy Clause render[ed] Article I, section 9,
inapplicable to the arrest * * *.” Id. at 34, 854 P.2d
399. The court rejected that argument and con-
cluded that preemption was not at issue because the
application of the state constitutional requirements
for an arrest warrant did not “affect the ability of
the federal government to administer or enforce its
* * * laws.” Id. at 36, 854 P.2d 399. Because the
court interpreted the state constitution not to im-
pose requirements on arrests by federal officers, the
state and the federal law did not conflict:
*198 “Because this court's interpretation of Art-
icle I, section 9, in this context, cannot and will
not interfere with the federal government in im-
migration matters, the Supremacy Clause has no
bearing on this case and this court is not
‘preempted’ from applying Article I, section 9, to
defendant's arrest.”
Id. Similarly, the Oregon Medical Marijuana
Act “cannot and will not interfere with” the federal
government's enforcement of the Controlled Sub-
stances Act and does not offend the Supremacy
Clause.
Instead of following Rodriguez, the majority
relies on two United States Supreme Court cases
for the proposition that state law that permits what
federal law prohibits is impliedly preempted. 348
Or. at 176–77, 230 P.3d at 528–29. The majority
then concludes that, “[t]o the extent that ORS
475.306(1) affirmatively authorizes the use of med-
ical marijuana, federal law preempts that subsec-
tion, leaving it ‘without effect.’ ” 348 Or. at 178,
230 P.3d at 529. I disagree with the majority's ana-
lysis for two reasons. First, the cases that the major-
ity cites stand only for the proposition that when
federal law bestows an unlimited power or right,
state law cannot preclude the exercise of that power
or right. The Controlled Substances Act does not
create a right; it prohibits certain conduct. Second,
other Supreme Court cases hold that when a federal
law does not create powers or rights but, instead,
sets standards for conduct, state law may set differ-
ent standards for the same conduct without offend-
ing the Supremacy Clause, as long as both sets of
laws may be enforced. By deciding not to punish
the medical use of marijuana, the Oregon Medical
Marijuana Act authorizes, for state law purposes,
conduct that the Controlled Substances Act prohib-
its. The Oregon Medical Marijuana Act does not,
however, offend the Supremacy Clause because it
does not affect enforcement of the Controlled Sub-
stances Act.
In the first of the two cases on which the ma-
jority relies, Barnett Bank v. Nelson, 517 U.S. 25,
116 S.Ct. 1103, 134 L.Ed.2d 237 (1996), a federal
statute explicitly granted national banks the unlim-
ited power to sell insurance in small towns. A state
statute forbade and impaired the exercise of that
power, and the court held that it was preempted.
*199 Michigan Canners & Freezers Associ-
ation v. Agricultural Marketing and Bargaining
Bd., 467 U.S. 461, 104 S.Ct. 2518, 81 L.Ed.2d 399
(1984), the second case on which the majority re-
lies, concerned a conflict between the federal Agri-
cultural Fair Practices Act, which protects the rights
of producers of agricultural goods to remain inde-
pendent and to bring their products to market on
their own without being required to sell those
products through an association, and a Michigan
statute. Id. at 473, 104 S.Ct. 2518. As the court ex-
plained in Massachusetts Medical Soc. v. Dukakis,
815 F.2d 790, 796 (1st Cir.), cert. den., 484 U.S.
896, 108 S.Ct. 229, 98 L.Ed.2d 188 (1987), the Ag-
ricultural Fair Practice Act creates a “right to re-
frain from joining an association of producers[.]”
(Ellipses omitted.) The Michigan statute at issue
prevented the exercise of the right conferred by the
act by precluding an agricultural producer “from
marketing his goods himself” and “impos[ed] on
the producer the same incidents of association
membership with which Congress was concerned *
* *.” **541 Michigan Canners, 467 U.S. at 478,
104 S.Ct. 2518. The Court held that under those cir-
cumstances, the state statute was preempted.
Neither Barnett nor Michigan Canners stands
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for the proposition that a state statute that permits
conduct that the federal government punishes is
preempted. In those cases, the federal statutes did
not punish conduct; they created powers or rights.
The Court therefore struck down state statutes that
forbade, impaired or prevented exercise of those
powers or rights. Because the Controlled Sub-
stances Act does not create a federal power or right
and the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act does not
forbid, impair, or prevent the exercise of a federal
power or right, Barnett and Michigan Canners are
inapposite. The more relevant Supreme Court cases
are those that consider the circumstance that exists
when federal and state laws impose different stand-
ards of conduct. Those cases stand for the proposi-
tion that states may impose standards of conduct
different from those imposed by a federal law
without creating an obstacle to the federal law.
In California v. ARC America Corp., 490 U.S.
93, 109 S.Ct. 1661, 104 L.Ed.2d 86 (1989), the
Court considered, under the “obstacle prong” of its
“actual conflict” implied preemption analysis, the
conflict between Section 4 of the federal *200
Clayton Act, which authorizes only direct pur-
chasers to recover monopoly overcharges, and a
state statute, which expressly permits recovery by
indirect purchasers. The Supreme Court held that,
even if the state statute directly conflicted with the
goals of the federal law, as the Ninth Circuit had
held, the state statute was not preempted. The Su-
preme Court reasoned that states are not required to
pursue federal goals when enacting their own laws:
“It is one thing to consider the congressional
policies identified in Illinois Brick [v. State of
Illinois, 431 U.S. 720, 97 S.Ct. 2061, 52 L.Ed.2d
707 (1977) ] and Hanover Shoe [v. United Shoe
Machinery Corp., 392 U.S. 481, 88 S.Ct. 2224,
20 L.Ed.2d 1231 (1968) ] in defining what sort of
recovery federal antitrust law authorizes; it is
something altogether different, and in our view
inappropriate, to consider them as defining what
federal law allows States to do under their own
antitrust law.”
Id. at 103, 109 S.Ct. 1661.
Other Supreme Court cases also illustrate the
Court's refusal to imply preemption, under the
“obstacle” prong of its implied preemption analysis,
where state and federal statutes set contrary stand-
ards or pursue contrary objectives. In Silkwood v.
Kerr–McGee Corp., 464 U.S. 238, 246, 104 S.Ct.
615, 78 L.Ed.2d 443 (1984), a case that the court in
ARC America cited as authority, the jury had awar-
ded the plaintiff a judgment of $10 million in punit-
ive damages against the defendant, a nuclear power
company. The defendant asserted that a conflict ex-
isted between the state law that permitted the judg-
ment and a federal law regulating nuclear power
plants, with which the defendant had complied.
Despite an earlier ruling that the Nuclear Regulat-
ory Commission had exclusive authority to regulate
the safety of nuclear power plants,FN5
and even
though the Court accepted that “there is tension
between the conclusion that safety regulation is the
exclusive concern of the federal law and the con-
clusion that a State may nevertheless award dam-
ages based on its own law of liability,” id. at 256,
104 S.Ct. 615, the Court refused to invalidate the
state law.
FN5. Pacific Gas & Elec. v. Energy Re-
sources Conservation & Development
Comm'n, 461 U.S. 190, 211–13, 103 S.Ct.
1713, 75 L.Ed.2d 752 (1983).
In Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v.
Paul, 373 U.S. 132, 83 S.Ct. 1210, 10 L.Ed.2d 248
(1963), a federal *201 statute authorized the mar-
keting of Florida avocados on the basis of weight,
size, and picking date; California, however, regu-
lated the marketing of avocados sold in the state on
the basis of oil content. As a result of the differing
standards, about six percent of Florida avocados
that were deemed mature under federal standards
were rejected from California markets. The
plaintiffs argued that the federal standard for regu-
lating Florida avocados preempted California's con-
flicting regulation. As the dissent argued:
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**542 “The conflict between federal and state
law is unmistakable here. The Secretary asserts
certain Florida avocados are mature. The state
law rejects them as immature. And the conflict is
over a matter of central importance to the federal
scheme. The elaborate regulatory scheme of the
marketing order is focused upon the problem of
moving mature avocados into interstate com-
merce. The maturity regulations are not peripher-
al aspects of the federal scheme.”
373 U.S. at 173, 83 S.Ct. 1210 (White, J., dis-
senting). The majority, however, concluded that the
test of whether an actual conflict existed was not
whether the laws adopted contrary standards, but
whether both laws could be enforced:
“The test of whether both federal and state regu-
lations may operate, or the state regulation must
give way, is whether both regulations can be en-
forced without impairing the federal superintend-
ence of the field, not whether they are aimed at
similar or different objectives.”
Id. at 142, 83 S.Ct. 1210 (emphasis added).
The Court's most recent case on the issue,
Wyeth v. Levine, ––– U.S. ––––, 129 S.Ct. 1187,
173 L.Ed.2d 51 (2009), is in accord. In that case,
the court was presented with a conflict between
state and federal law that the dissent characterized
as follows: “The FDA told Wyeth that Phenergan's
label renders its use ‘safe.’ But the State of Ver-
mont, through its tort law said: ‘Not so.’ ”FN6
Id.,
129 S.Ct. at 1231 (Alito, J. dissenting). Neverthe-
less, the majority upheld the state law. Although
*202 the two laws imposed contradictory standards,
the state law was not preempted.
FN6. The FDA had also adopted a regula-
tion declaring that “certain state law ac-
tions, such as those involving failure-
to-warn claims, ‘threaten FDA's statutorily
prescribed role as the expert Federal
agency responsible for evaluating and reg-
ulating drugs.’ ” Id. at 1200.
The cases that I have reviewed demonstrate
that the Supreme Court requires more as a basis for
implying a congressional intent to preempt a state
law than a Congressional purpose that is at odds
with the policy that a state selects. The Court has
permitted state laws that impose standards of con-
duct different than those set by federal laws to
stand unless the state laws preclude the enforce-
ment of the federal laws or have some other demon-
strated effect on their operation. The Court has
found state laws that forbid, impair or prevent the
exercise of federally granted powers or rights to be
preempted.
The majority does not contend, in accordance
with those cases, that ORS 475.306(1) or the Ore-
gon Medical Marijuana Act as a whole precludes
enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act or
has any other demonstrated effect on its
“accomplishment and execution.” The only
obstacles to the federal act that the majority identi-
fies are Oregon's differing policy choice and the
lack of respect that it signifies. 348 Or. at 184–85,
230 P.3d at 533.
As an example of the way it believes the Su-
premacy Clause to operate, the majority posits that,
if Congress were to pass a law prohibiting persons
under the age of 21 from driving, a state law au-
thorizing persons over the age of 16 to drive and
giving them a license to do so would be preempted.FN7
348 Or. at 180–81, 230 P.3d at 530–31. The
majority would be correct if Congress had authority
to make such a law and if Congress expressly pree-
mpted state laws allowing persons under the age of
21 to drive or indicated an intent to occupy the
field. However, without such statement of Congres-
sional intent, implied preemption does not necessar-
ily follow. As a sovereign state, Oregon has author-
ity to license its drivers and to choose its own age
requirements. If Oregon set at 16 years the minim-
um age for its drivers then, the Oregon driver li-
censes it issued would give 16–year–olds only state
permission to drive. *203 The Oregon law would
not be preempted, but neither would it protect
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16–year–olds from federal prosecution and liability.
FN7. As I read the majority opinion, a
state law providing that Oregon would not
punish drivers between the ages of 16 and
21, as opposed to permitting those persons
to drive, would withstand a Supremacy
Clause challenge.
As a result, an Oregon legislature considering
whether to enact such a law could decide, as a prac-
tical matter, that it would **543 not be in the in-
terest of its citizens to grant licenses that could res-
ult in federal prosecution. Suppose, however, that
Congress had passed the federal law that the major-
ity posits, but that federal officers were not enfor-
cing it. Or suppose further that the federal govern-
ment had announced a federal policy decision not
to enforce the federal law against “individuals
whose actions are in clear and unambiguous com-
pliance with existing state laws” permitting minors
to drive. Could Oregon not serve as a laboratory al-
lowing minors to drive on its roads under carefully
circumscribed conditions to permit them to acquire
driving skills and giving Congress important in-
formation that might assist it in determining wheth-
er its policy should be changed? Is not one of feder-
alism's chief virtues that “a single courageous State
may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory;
and try novel social and economic experiments
without risk to the rest of the country”? See New
State Ice Co. v. Liebmann, 285 U.S. 262, 311, 52
S.Ct. 371, 76 L.Ed. 747 (1932) (Brandeis, J., dis-
senting) (so contending).
In the case of medical marijuana, the federal
government in fact has announced that it will not
enforce the Controlled Substances Act against
“individuals whose actions are in clear and unam-
biguous compliance with existing state laws permit-
ting the medical use of marijuana.”FN8
Oregon is
not the only state that permits the use of medical
marijuana, and at least one state is considering rules
to “identify requirements for the licensure of produ-
cers and cannabis production facilities.” New Mex-
ico's “Lynn and Erin Compassionate Use Act,”
2007 New Mexico Laws ch. 210, § 7 (SB 523).FN9
FN8. Memorandum from David W. Ogden,
Deputy Attorney General for Selected
United States Attorneys on Investigations
and Prosecutions in States Authorizing the
Medical Use of Marijuana (Oct. 19, 2009)
(available at http:// blogs. usdoj. gov/ blog/
archives/ 192) (accessed Apr. 6, 2010)
(emphasis in original).
FN9. New Mexico's “Lynn and Erin Com-
passionate Use Act,” 2007 New Mexico
Laws ch. 210, § 7 (SB 523), requires relev-
ant state agencies to develop rules that
“identify requirements for the licensure of
producers and cannabis production facilit-
ies and set forth procedures to obtain li-
censes,” as well as “develop a distribution
system for medical cannabis” that com-
ports with certain requirements. The New
Jersey “Compassionate Use Medical
Marijuana Act,” S119, Approved PL 2009,
c. 307, § 7, provides for the creation of
“alternate treatment centers, each of which
“shall be authorized to acquire a reason-
able initial and ongoing inventory, as de-
termined by the department, of
marijuana seeds or seedlings and
paraphernalia, possess, cultivate, plant,
grow, harvest, process, display, manu-
facture, deliver, transfer, transport, dis-
tribute, supply, sell, or dispense
marijuana, or related supplies to qualify-
ing patients or their primary caregivers
who are registered with the department
pursuant to section 4 of * * * this act.”
The Maine Medical Marijuana Act
provides for the creation of “nonprofit
dispensaries” which are authorized to
dispense up to two and one-half ounces
of marijuana to qualified patients. Me.
Rev. Stat. title 22, § 2428 – 7. In Rhode
Island, “The Edward O. Hawkins and
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Thomas C. Slater Medical Marijuana
Act,” provides for the creation of
“compassion centers,” which “may ac-
quire, possess, cultivate, manufacture,
deliver, transfer, transport, supply or dis-
pense marijuana * * * to registered qual-
ifying patients and their registered
primary caregivers.” R.I. Gen. Laws §
21–28.6–12.
*204 As I explained at the outset, the federal
government has no power to require that the Ore-
gon legislature pass state laws to implement or give
effect to federal policy choices. One sovereign may
make a policy choice to prohibit and punish con-
duct; the other sovereign may make a different
policy choice not to do so and instead to permit, for
purposes of state law only, other circumscribed
conduct. Absent express preemption, a particular
policy choice by the federal government does not
alone establish an implied intent to preempt con-
trary state law. A different choice by a state is just
that—different. A state's contrary choice does not
indicate a lack of respect; it indicates federalism at
work.
The consequence of the majority's decision that
the Controlled Substance Act invalidates ORS
475.306(1) is that petitioner is disqualified from the
benefits of ORS 659A.124, which imposes a re-
quirement of reasonable accommodation. The ma-
jority states that it does not decide “whether the le-
gislature, if it chose to do so and worded Oregon's
disability law differently, could require employers
to reasonably accommodate otherwise qualified
**544 disabled employees who use medical
marijuana to treat their disabilities.” 348 Or. at 172
n. 12, 230 P.3d at 526 n. 12. Indeed, different
words could be used for that purpose. For instance,
the legislature could state expressly in ORS chapter
659A that disabled persons who would be entitled
to the *205 affirmative defense set forth in ORS
475.319 (a provision the majority does not find
preempted) are not disqualified from the protec-
tions of the Oregon Disability Act, including the re-
quirement of reasonable accommodation. Or, to be
even more careful, the legislature could state, in
chapter 659A, the conditions that a medical
marijuana user must meet to be entitled to the pro-
tections of the Oregon Disability Act without any
reference to the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act. If
the legislature took either of those actions, reason-
able accommodation would not be tied to the provi-
sion of the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act that the
majority finds to be of “no effect.”
Although such changes could secure the right
of reasonable accommodation for disabled persons
who use medical marijuana in compliance with
Oregon law, the changes would not eliminate the
questions that the majority's analysis raises about
the validity of other provisions of the Oregon Med-
ical Marijuana Act that use words of authorization
or about the reach of Oregon's legislative authority.
If the majority decision simply represents a formal-
istic view of the Supremacy Clause that permits
Oregon to make its own choices about what con-
duct to punish (and thereby to permit) as long as it
phrases its choices carefully, perhaps my concern is
overstated. But as I cannot imagine that Congress
would be concerned with the phrasing, rather than
the effect, of state law, I not only think that the ma-
jority is wrong, I fear that it wrongly limits the le-
gislative authority of this state. If it does, it not only
limits the state's authority to make its own medical
marijuana laws, it limits the state's authority to en-
act other laws that set standards of conduct differ-
ent than the standards set by the federal govern-
ment. Consider just one statute currently on the
books—Oregon's Death with Dignity Act.
Oregon's Death with Dignity Act affirmatively
authorizes physicians to use controlled substances
to assist suicide.FN10
In *206Gonzales v. Oregon,
546 U.S. 243, 126 S.Ct. 904, 163 L.Ed.2d 748
(2006), the Supreme Court considered the validity
of a federal Interpretive Rule that provided that
“using controlled substances to assist suicide is not
a legitimate medical practice and that dispensing or
prescribing them for this purpose is unlawful under
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the [Controlled Substances Act].” Id. at 249, 126
S.Ct. 904. The Supreme Court decided that the In-
terpretive Rule was invalid and did not decide
whether the federal rule preempted the Oregon act.
But if the federal government were to adopt a stat-
ute or a valid rule to the same effect, would this
court hold that, because the Oregon Death with
Dignity Act grants physicians permission to take
actions that federal law prohibits, the state statute is
preempted and of no effect? If so, the court would
invalidate a state law using an analysis that at least
three members of the Supreme Court have recog-
nized to be faulty:
FN10. ORS 127.815(1)(L)(A) authorizes
physicians to dispense medications for the
purpose of ending a patient's life in a hu-
mane and dignified manner when that pa-
tient has a terminal illness and has satisfied
the written request requirements that the
Act provides. ORS 127.805(1) authorizes a
terminally ill patient to “make a written re-
quest for medication for the purpose of
ending his or her life in a humane and dig-
nified manner in accordance with [the
Act].”
“[T]he [Interpretive Rule] does not purport to
pre-empt state law in any way, not even by con-
flict pre-emption—unless the Court is under the
misimpression that some States require assisted
suicide.”
Gonzales, 546 U.S. at 290, 126 S.Ct. 904 (Scalia,
J., joined by Roberts, C.J. and Thomas, J., dis-
senting) (emphasis in original).
I do not understand why, in our system of dual
sovereigns, Oregon must fly only in federal forma-
tion and not, as Oregon's motto provides, “with her
own wings.” ORS 186.040. Therefore, I cannot join
in a decision by which we, as state court judges, en-
join the policies of our own state and preclude our
legislature from making its own **545 independent
decisions about what conduct to criminalize. With
respect, I dissent.
DURHAM, J., joins in this opinion.
Or.,2010.
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KCBA Ethics Advisory Opinion on I-502 & Rules of Professional Conduct
October, 2013
The King County Bar Association proposed on October 4, 2013, given unresolved attorney
ethics questions after Washington State voters approved Initiative 502 (marijuana legalization),
that the Washington State Supreme Court consider amendments to the Rules of Professional
Conduct. While that RPC proposal is under consideration by the Court, the KCBA Board of
Trustees has adopted an ethics advisory opinion to assist the bar in the interim as attorneys
consider practice issues under the existing RPCs.
Questions presented:
1. Should an attorney who assists clients to engage in conduct that is permitted by I-502 and
its implementing regulations, but is forbidden by federal law, be subjected to professional
discipline in Washington?
2. Should an attorney who has an ownership interest in or is employed by a marijuana
dispensary and/or occasionally possesses marijuana, both in a manner expressly
permitted by I-502 but forbidden by federal law, be subjected to professional discipline in
Washington?
Background and hypothetical facts
On November 6, 2012, Washington voters approved Initiative 502 (“I-502”) by a margin of
55.7% to 44.3%.1 When undertaken in proper compliance with Washington law, the
manufacture of marijuana, sale of marijuana, and possession of marijuana in certain amounts by
adults is no longer criminalized by state law.2 Colorado passed a similar law in its November
2012 general election.3
1 Washington Sec’y of State, November 2012 General Election Results, Initiative Measure 502 Concerns marijuana,
available at http://vote.wa.gov/results/20121106/Initiative-Measure-No-502-Concerns-marijuana.html (last accessed
Oct. 6, 2013). 2 I-502 §§ 4(1)-(3); 20(3). The Washington State Bar Association does not offer ethical opinions that address the
substance of the underlying law, and this KCBA opinion follows that practice. See, e.g., WSBA Advisory Op. 2107
(2006) (noting that the Committee does not provide statutory analysis or interpretation, but including statutory
references in order to aid discussion of potential professional ethics issues). References to the substance of I-502 or
its regulations is intended to aid in discussion of the law’s effect on an attorney’s ethical responsibilities, and not to
opine on the substance of the law. 3 See Colorado const. amend. 64 (adding recreational use amendment to Article 18 of Colorado constitution).
I-502 required the state liquor control board to adopt rules regarding the procedures and criteria
necessary to implement several goals of the new initiative.4 By law, the liquor control board
must do so by December 1, 2013, and the agency’s most recent update says that it is on track to
implement the regulations by that date.5
Meanwhile, on August 29, 2013, Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole issued a
memorandum for all United States Attorneys regarding enforcement under the federal Controlled
Substances Act (“CSA”) in light of new state laws such as Washington’s.6 The “Cole
Memorandum” stated that the goals of federal marijuana policy had typically been addressed by
state enforcement when consistent with eight important federal goals, including keeping
marijuana out of the hands of children and keeping marijuana proceeds out of the hands of
criminal organizations.7 The Cole Memorandum recognized that, when a state regulatory system
accomplishes these goals, “consistent with the traditional allocation of federal-state efforts in this
area, enforcement of state law by state and local law enforcement and regulatory bodies should
remain the primary means of addressing marijuana-related activity.”8 The same day, Attorney
General Eric Holder informed the governors of Washington and Colorado that the Department of
Justice would not immediately file suit seeking to invalidate the states’ respective recreational
marijuana laws.9
The CSA continues to criminalize the sale and possession of marijuana,10
as the Cole
Memorandum expressly recognizes.11
Attorneys in Washington, therefore, may face ethical
dilemmas based on this inconsistency between federal and state law. The remainder of this
advisory opinion considers two hypothetical attorneys: Attorney A, who assists a client with the
panoply of legal issues associated with setting up a marijuana distribution business in
compliance with Washington law, and Attorney B, who maintains an ownership interest in a
marijuana dispensary and occasionally possesses marijuana (and does both in full compliance
with Washington law).
4 I-502 § 10. 5 Id. 6 Memorandum from James M. Cole, Deputy Attorney General, to All United States Attorneys, Guidance Regarding
Marijuana Enforcement (Aug. 29, 2013), available at
http://www.justice.gov/iso/opa/resources/3052013829132756857467.pdf (“Cole Memorandum”). 7 Id. at 1-2. The eight recognized federal law enforcement priorities recognized in the Cole Memorandum are: (i)
preventing distribution to minors; (ii) preventing marijuana revenue from reaching criminal organizations; (iii)
preventing the diversion of legal marijuana to states where it is illegal; (iv) preventing state-authorized marijuana
activities from serving as a front for other illegal activity (including trafficking of other drugs); (v) preventing
violence and the use of firearms related to marijuana commerce; (vi) preventing drugged driving and other adverse
health consequences related to marijuana; (vii) preventing the growth of marijuana on public lands; and (viii)
preventing marijuana possession or use on federal property. 8 Id. at 3. 9 News Release, Joint Statement from Gov. Inslee and AG Ferguson regarding update from AG Ferguson on
implementation of Washington’s voter-approved marijuana law (Aug. 29, 2013), available at
http://www.atg.wa.gov/pressrelease.aspx?id=31361. 10 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1); 21 U.S.C. § 812(c). 11 Cole Memorandum at 4 (“This memorandum does not alter in any way the Department’s authority to enforce
federal law, including federal laws related to marijuana, regardless of state law. Neither the guidance herein nor any
state of local law provides a legal defense to a violation of federal law, including any civil or criminal violation of
the CSA.”).
Analysis
A. Ethical implications of offering client counseling and advice regarding I-502
Will Attorney A be in violation of his ethical obligations if he assists a client in complying with
I-502, in a manner that will necessarily violate the text of the CSA? The KCBA believes that
subjecting an attorney to professional misconduct on this basis would be wholly inconsistent
with the purpose of the rule and the public policy of the state.12
Washington Rule of Professional Conduct (“RPC”) 1.2(d) states:
A lawyer shall not counsel a client to engage, or assist a client, in conduct that the
lawyer knows is criminal or fraudulent, but a lawyer may discuss the legal
consequences of any proposed course of conduct with a client and may counsel or
assist a client to make a good faith effort to determine the validity, scope,
meaning or application of the law.
While the latter portion of the rule offers a safe harbor for “discuss[ing] the legal consequences
of any proposed course of conduct” and assisting the client to “make a good faith effort to
determine the validity, scope, meaning, or application of the law,” this safe harbor may not offer
sufficient protection to those attorneys who wish to actually assist a client in complying with I-
502 and its regulations. To be sure, an attorney could advise a client on the relationship between
I-502 and federal law and the likelihood of enforcement of federal law as set forth in the Cole
Memorandum, which resembles an attempt to determine the meaning and applicability of
existing law. A client, however, would normally demand much more assistance in navigating
the complicated regulatory field of I-502. A client who requests help with I-502 compliance,
such as Attorney A’s client, cannot honestly be said to seek only to determine the reach of I-502
or the CSA: Attorney A’s client seeks to form a marijuana distribution business.13
If Attorney A
restricted his advice to an explanation of the interplay of I-502 and federal law, he might be
ethically safe, but he would not be helpful to his client.
This opinion must, therefore, address the substance of RPC 1.2(d), namely the provisions against
“counsel[ing]” or “assist[ing]” a client in conduct that the lawyer knows is criminal. While the
rule on its face does not seem to distinguish between violations of state and federal law, the
analysis is complicated by the novel circumstance where federal and Washington laws conflict as
they do here. Three state associations have discussed the analogous situation where an attorney
sought to assist clients with complying with state medical marijuana laws, arriving at different
conclusions.
The Maine Professional Ethics Commission concluded in 2010 that representing or advising
clients under Maine’s Medical Marijuana Act would “involv[e] a significant degree of risk which
12 This advisory opinion is limited to conduct that is expressly permitted by positive state law, or for which state law
expressly provides an affirmative defense. This opinion does not address violations of the professional rules
premised solely on the violation of federal law, where state law is silent or did not form basis for the relevant
underlying misconduct. Indeed, it is likely that conduct of the latter type will frequently be the proper subject of
attorney discipline. See, e.g., In re Disciplinary Proceeding Against Smith, 170 Wn.2d 721, 246 P.3d 1224 (2011)
(affirming attorney’s disbarment for conviction of conspiracy to commit federal securities fraud and wire fraud). 13 See Sam Kamin and Eli Wald, Marijuana Lawyers: Outlaws or Crusaders?, 91 Oregon L. Rev. 869 (2013)
(addressing this argument) (hereinafter “Outlaws or Crusaders?”).
needs to be carefully evaluated.”14
The Commission recognized that the federal government had
deprioritized enforcement of the CSA in medical marijuana cases, but reasoned that Maine’s rule
“does not make a distinction between crimes which are enforced and those are not.” As long as
the federal law and Maine’s RPCs remain unchanged, attorneys needed to determine “whether
the particular legal service being requested rises to the level of assistance in violating federal
law.” If so, the attorney risks violating RPC 1.2. The Connecticut Bar Association Professional
Ethics Committee reached a similar conclusion to that of the Maine commission: while an
attorney could safely advise a client on the requirements of state and federal marijuana law,
advice and services in aid of functioning marijuana enterprises could run afoul of RPC 1.2(d).15
Like the Maine commission, the Connecticut committee reasoned that “[w]hether or not the CSA
is enforced, violation of it is still criminal in nature. . . . Lawyers may not assist clients in
conduct that is in violation of federal criminal law.”
In 2011, however, the State Bar of Arizona reached the opposite conclusion.16
Unlike the Maine
and Connecticut opinions, the Arizona opinion declined to read its Ethics Rule 1.2 to forbid
attorney assistance regarding conduct prohibited by the CSA yet compliant with state law. To do
so, the bar reasoned, would “depriv[e] clients of the very legal advice and assistance that is
needed to engage in the conduct that the state law expressly permits.” In addition to recognizing
the desirability of making legal services available, the bar noted that Arizona’s act had not yet
been held invalid or preempted by federal law. The bar advised that an attorney could ethically
perform legal services related to the state’s Medical Marijuana Act so long as (i) the conduct was
expressly permitted under the Act, (ii) the lawyer advised the client on potential federal law
implications and consequences, and (iii) the client, having received full disclosure, elected to
proceed with a course of action specifically permitted by the Act.
The KCBA favors the State Bar of Arizona approach, and would urge this state to follow the
same approach regarding client advice and counseling about compliance with I-502. While the
KCBA does not agree with all components of the Arizona opinion,17
its emphasis on the client’s
need for legal assistance to comply with state law accurately reflects the reality that Washington
clients face in navigating the new Washington law. The initial proposed implementing
regulations for I-502, for example, have added 49 new sections in the Washington
Administrative Code encompassing 42 pages of text.18
These regulations are consistent with I-
502’s express goal of removing the marijuana economy from the province of criminal
organizations and bringing it into a “tightly regulated, state-licensed system.”19
In building this
complex system, the voters of Washington could not have envisioned it working without
14 Maine Prof. Ethics Comm’n, Op. 199 (July 7, 2010). 15 Conn. Bar Ass’n, Prof. Ethics Comm’n, Informal Op. 2013-12, Providing Services to Clients Seeking Licenses
under the Connecticut Medical Marijuana Law (Jan. 16, 2013). 16 State Bar of Az. Ethics Op. 11-01 (Feb. 2011). 17 The Arizona opinion emphasizes that no court has held its state’s act to be invalid or preempted. To the extent
that this suggests that the effectiveness of the CSA may be diminished or affected by the contrary state law, or that a
court would need to hold otherwise before it was clear, the KCBA does not make such an assumption. See generally
Alec Rothrock, Is Assisting Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Hazardous to a Lawyer’s Professional Health?, 89
Denver U. L. Rev. 1047 (2012) (criticizing Arizona opinion’s discussion of interplay between state and federal law
as “a misunderstanding of federalism,” and stating that “the federal law remains unchanged and in full force in every
corner of Arizona”). 18 WSR 13-14-124. 19 I-502 § 1.
attorneys. As the State Bar of Arizona recognized, disciplining attorneys for working within
such a system would deprive the state’s citizens of legal services “necessary and desirable to
implement and bring to fruition that conduct expressly permitted under state law.”
While the Maine and Connecticut opinions may be more faithful to the plain text of their rules,
both founder on addressing the importance of legal assistance to those who wish to engage in the
conduct that state law permits. Moreover, neither opinion fully grapples with the diminished
federal desire to enforce marijuana activities done in unambiguous compliance with state law.
Under the current federal directive, the CSA will not ordinarily be enforced against an individual
or business when the activity does not threaten federal enforcement objectives, which may be
demonstrated by “the operation [being] demonstrably in compliance with a strong and effective
state regulatory system.”20
Because federal enforcement policy is tied to compliance with state
law, an attorney advising a client on complying with I-502 and the Cole Memorandum’s
objectives would be helping a client avoid federal prosecution, even if technically counseling or
assisting the client to violate the letter of federal law. This state should reject a formalistic
reading of RPC 1.2(d) that would prohibit such conduct.
Even if officials in this state were to follow the Maine and Connecticut opinions and find a
technical violation of RPC 1.2(d) under the circumstances presented here, a separate rationale
should counsel against attorney discipline: estoppel. Assuming that federal law could provide
the predicate to a violation of Washington’s RPC 1.2(d), attorney discipline is state-based, and
the state should interpret its own rules in accordance with the state policy that favors strong
regulation of legalized marijuana and, by inference, attorney assistance in this regime. Now that
the state has established such a regime, it has no legitimate interest in disciplining attorneys who
operate within the confines of that same regime.21
The proper scope of RPC 1.2(d) as applied here is a novel question, and the KCBA hopes to
avoid such close determinations by amendments to the text of the rule to make clear that
Attorney A’s conduct is permitted by the RPCs. In the meantime, however, the KCBA believes
that an attorney who fully advises the client of the federal law implications of I-502 and the CSA
(including the policies reflected in the Cole Memorandum) may assist the client, so long as the
counseled or assisted conduct is expressly permitted by I-502.
B. Ethical implications of personal conduct in compliance with I-502
Will Attorney B commit professional misconduct solely by her ownership interest in a marijuana
dispensary and her personal possession of marijuana? Assuming she is compliant with I-502, the
KCBA believes she would not, as her actions are unrelated to her honesty, trustworthiness, or
fitness as a lawyer.
RPC 8.4(b) states that “[i]t is professional misconduct for a lawyer to: . . . commit a criminal act
that reflects adversely on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer in other
respects[.]” Attorney B would face a similar dilemma to Attorney A, because her ownership
interest in a marijuana dispensary and her personal possession of marijuana may be permitted in
Washington, but remain technically “criminal acts” under the CSA.
20 See Cole Memorandum at 3. 21 See Marijuana Lawyers: Outlaws or Criminals, supra note 13, at 929 (arguing that state that legalizes marijuana
should be estopped from disciplining lawyers who act within this framework).
Regardless of the criminal nature of the acts, however, Washington requires “some nexus
between the lawyer’s conduct and those characteristics relevant to law practice” prior to
imposing discipline for violating a law.22
The Colorado Bar Association Ethics Commission
found the absence of such a nexus to the mere use of medical marijuana in Formal Opinion No.
124, concluding that such use would not violate the Colorado rule without “additional evidence
that the lawyer’s conduct adversely implicates the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness, or fitness as
a lawyer in other respects.” Here, absent other factors, there is no nexus between Attorney B’s
conduct that is permitted by I-502, and her honesty, trustworthiness, or fitness as a lawyer. If
Attorney B’s business activities or personal possession of marijuana made her unfit to practice,
or caused her to violate other provisions of the RPCs, she would properly be subject to discipline
under other RPC provisions.
Although the KCBA believes that the existing ethics rules regarding an attorney’s personal
conduct with respect to marijuana provide clearer protection to attorneys than the existing rules
regarding client advice, it has requested amendments to the RPCs and comments to make clear
that Attorney B’s conduct, standing alone, would not subject her to professional misconduct.
C. Advisory nature of opinion
While the KCBA does not believe that an attorney should be subjected to professional discipline
for engaging in the conduct described in this opinion, like the WSBA, its opinion does not have
the force of law. The Washington Supreme Court is the ultimate arbiter of whether an attorney’s
conduct violates the RPCs.23
Indeed, given the disagreement between professional ethics
tribunals in other states and the novel nature of issues presented by I-502, an attorney must
proceed with caution in undertaking the activities addressed in this opinion.
Approved by the King County Bar Association Board of Trustees, October 16, 2013.
22 Matter of Disciplinary Proceeding Against Curran, 115 Wn.2d 747, 768, 801 P.2d 962 (1990) (attorney could not
be disciplined under RPC 8.4(b) following vehicular homicide, because no nexus existed between that crime and the
lawyer’s fitness as an attorney). 23 Wash. State Bar Ass’n, Advisory Opinions: About Advisory Opinions, available at
http://www.wsba.org/Resources-and-Services/Ethics/Advisory-Opinions (last accessed Oct. 6, 2013) (“[T]he Board
recognized the Washington Supreme Court’s opinion in In re Disciplinary Proceeding Against DeRuiz, 152 Wn.2d
558, 99 P.3d 881 (2004), which emphasized that ethics opinions issued by the Bar Association are advisory only,
and that the Court is the ultimate arbiter of the Rules of Professional Conduct.”).
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