[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1310 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1310

 To amend the Controlled Substances Act to prevent recommendations of 
the illegal use of controlled substances by registrants under that Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 10, 1997

 Mr. Solomon introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
    Committee on Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the 
 Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
 in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Controlled Substances Act to prevent recommendations of 
the illegal use of controlled substances by registrants under that Act.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Medical Marijuana Prevention Act of 
1997''.

SEC. 2. SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF REGISTRATION.

    Section 304 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U. S.C. 824) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(h) The Attorney General shall revoke the registration of any 
registrant who, as a practitioner, recommends to a patient of that 
registrant a use which is illegal, under Federal law, of a controlled 
substance.''.
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