Supreme Court refuses to hear case on seized medical marijuana
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- Supreme Court refuses to hear case on seized medical marijuana
- Swiss Vote to Keep Program Giving Addicts Heroin
- UCF Group Proposes Easing Rules On Marijuana To Curb Binge Drinking
- Marijuana charges send Aberdeen man to prison
- US Supreme Court: State Medical Marijuana Laws Not Preempted by …
- Chicago Heights takes over minor marijuana cases
- 2 get prison time in marijuana ring
Supreme Court refuses to hear case on seized medical marijuana
Los Angeles Times CA
City officials expressed disappointment and said their position was never to challenge the constitutionality of California’s medical marijuana law only whether police could be forced to return the drug. Police pulled over Felix Kha a Garden Grove resident in June 2005 for a traffic violation and found him in possession of one-third of an ounce of marijuana. Though Orange County prosecutors dropped drug charges after a doctor confirmed that the cannabis was for medical use police refused to return the drugs on the grounds that to do so violated federal drug distribution laws. A judge in Orange County Superior Court sided with Kha ordering the police to return his marijuana. But the city again refused and instead appealed to California’s 4th District Court of Appeal. The court of appeal also sided with Kha declaring that patients enjoy a federally protected property right to their medical marijuana. Garden Grove argued that such a right doesn’t exist since federal law makes marijuana possession illegal in almost all circumstances and asked the California Supreme Court to look at the case but in March the court refused.
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Swiss Vote to Keep Program Giving Addicts Heroin
New York Times United States
26 million Swiss who voted in the national referendum 68 percent approved making the heroin program permanent. But 63 percent voted against the marijuana proposal which was based on a separate citizens’ initiative to decriminalize consuming marijuana and growing the plant for personal use.
UCF Group Proposes Easing Rules On Marijuana To Curb Binge Drinking
Local6.com FL
– A student-run advisory committee at UCF offers a controversial proposal concerning marijuana use. Tuesday December 2 2008.
Marijuana charges send Aberdeen man to prison
AberdeenNews.com SD
Barse 24 was sentenced Monday to five years in state prison with two years suspended. In exchange for his guilty plea to a count of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute a marijuana possession charge was dismissed. In addition to the prison time Judge Tony Portra ordered Barse to pay a $100 fine and court-appointed attorney and testing costs. Distribution of more than a half pound but less than a pound of marijuana is a felony punishable by as much as 10 years in state prison and a $10000 fine. Prison time forprobation violationDarby D. Feist 26 of Aberdeen admitted he violated the terms of his probation.
US Supreme Court: State Medical Marijuana Laws Not Preempted by …
Salem-News.Com OR
Supreme Court refused to review a landmark decision today in which California state courts found that its medical marijuana law was not preempted by federal law. The state appellate court decision from November 28th 2007 ruled that it.
Chicago Heights takes over minor marijuana cases
Southtown Star IL
Instead you’ll get a ticket and go through an administrative hearing in city court according to a new ordinance approved Monday night by the city council. The city used its home rule authority to make the change. The new ordinance applies to those found with less than 30 grams of marijuana. City attorney TJ Somer said addressing such offenses as ordinance violations rather than crimes helps “unclog” the criminal justice system while providing extra revenue for the city.
2 get prison time in marijuana ring
Charlottesville Daily Progress VA
District Judge Norman K. Moon sentenced Jvon Barnett and Joe Davis Williams III to 12 months in prison each.