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U.S. Supreme Court decides federal drug prosecutors had gone too far: ACLU of Virginia agrees

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In a unanimous decision today written by Justice Clarence Thomas about a case out of Charlottesville, the United States Supreme Court found in McFadden v. United States that the Controlled Substance Act and its Analogue Act require the government to prove that the defendant knew he was distributing a substance that is substantially similar to a regulated substance.