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Pubdate: Wed, 17 Aug 2016
Source: Washington Post (DC)
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COURT HALTS POT PROSECUTIONS
A federal appeals court on Tuesday banned the Justice Department from prosecuting medical marijuana cases if no state laws were broken. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in San Francisco ordered the federal agency to show that 10 pending cases in California and Washington state violated medical marijuana laws in those states before continuing with prosecutions.
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