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Although 24 states have legalized cannabis, it remains illegal at the federal level, carrying the same criminal penalties as heroin and MDMA.

The use of unclaimed bodies in medical schools was legalized in the 1800s as an attempt to stop grave robbing, where so-called “resurrectionists” dug up dead bodies and sold them to schools.

Racial disparities persist even in states that have legalized cannabis, with reduced rates of incarceration mostly among white people, said Dr. Yasmin Hurd, the director of the Addiction Institute at Mount Sinai.

Most Oregonians favor legalized abortion, she noted, as do most Americans.

The businesses allege in the lawsuit the agency violated state and federal laws, including those that legalized the production of hemp and govern the rulemaking process.