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Webb v. United States, 249 U.S. 96 (1919)
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General SummaryThis case is from a collection containing the full text of over 16,000 Supreme Court cases from 1793 to the present. The body of Supreme Court decisions are, effectively, the final interpretation of the Constitution. Only an amendment to the Constitution can permanently overturn an interpretation and this has happened only four times in American history.
Webb v. United States, 249 U.S. 96 (1919)
Webb v. United States No. 370 Argued January 1, 1919 Decided March 3, 1919 249 U.S. 96
`CERTIFICATE FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT
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The first sentence of § 2 of the Narcotic Drug Act of December 17, 1914, c. 1, 38 Stat. 785, prohibits retail sales of morphine by druggist to persons who have no physician’s prescription, who have no order blank therefor, and who cannot obtain an order blank because not of the class to which such blanks are allowed to be issued under the act. P. 99.
This construction does not make unconstitutional the prohibition of such sale. Id., United States v. Doremus, ante,86.
If a practicing and registered physician issues an order for morphine to an habitual user thereof, the order not being issued by him in the course of professional treatment in the attempted cure of the habit, but for the purpose of providing the user with morphine sufficient to keep him comfortable by maintaining his customary use, such order is not a physician’s prescription under exception (b) of § 2 of the act. Id.
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Chicago: U.S. Supreme Court, "Syllabus," Webb v. United States, 249 U.S. 96 (1919) in 249 U.S. 96 249 U.S. 97. Original Sources, accessed November 24, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=Z7CEKAFWFVEXFKR.
MLA: U.S. Supreme Court. "Syllabus." Webb v. United States, 249 U.S. 96 (1919), in 249 U.S. 96, page 249 U.S. 97. Original Sources. 24 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=Z7CEKAFWFVEXFKR.
Harvard: U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Webb v. United States, 249 U.S. 96 (1919). cited in 1919, 249 U.S. 96, pp.249 U.S. 97. Original Sources, retrieved 24 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=Z7CEKAFWFVEXFKR.
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