United States v. John C. Kiffer

How courts have described this case

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• \[I]t appears now that the administrative route for [the defendants] would at best provide an uncertain and indefinitely delayed remedy ... [and impose on them a] severe burden.\
• “If Congress decides to regulate or prohibit some harmful substances, it is not thereby constitutionally compelled to regulate or prohibit all. It may conclude that half a loaf is better than none.”
• \[T]here is no colorable claim of a fundamental constitutional right to sell marihuana.\
• “[Cjourts usually review challenged legislative acts with the understanding that they are presumed valid and will be so found unless it is shown that the statute in question bears no rational relationship to a legitimate legislative purpose.”

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