Criminal,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Mar. 29, 2018
Defense cites US budget bill to get pot case dropped
A defense attorney has filed a motion to dismiss a long-running federal marijuana prosecution based on the budget bill President Donald Trump signed on Friday.
A defense attorney has filed a motion to dismiss a long-running federal marijuana prosecution based on the budget bill President Donald Trump signed on Friday.
The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018 contained an extension of the Rohrabacher-Farr Amendment. First passed in 2014, it states federal prosecutors cannot prevent states from "implementing their own state laws that authorize" the use, cultivating and sale of marijuana. ...
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