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4th Court rejects facial vagueness challenge to a statute criminalizing drugs that are “unsafe

In Ex parte Jarreau, the 4th Court overruled a facial constitutional challenge to Texas Health & Safety Code provisions criminalizing “dangerous drugs.” The dissent would have held the “catch-all ‘unsafe for self-medication’ portion of the definition of a ‘dangerous drug’ in the Dangerous Drug Act is unconstitutionally vague on its face.”

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