Arizona Court Of Appeals To Hear Medical Marijuana Case

[bobandtorey]

The Arizona Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments on the high-profile medical marijuana case at 9:30 a.m. on Dec. 20.

 

Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery requested that the appellate court temporarily block a lower court ruling that the state’s medical marijuana law is constitutional and that the county must provide zoning documents for a potential dispensary.

 

Montgomery asked the court to make a quick decision on whether it will stay or suspend Superior Court Judge Michael Gordon’s Dec. 4 ruling. Gordon on Thursday rejected Montgomery’s request to block the ruling, prompting Montgomery’s filing Friday with the Court of Appeals.

 

The county prosecutor disagrees with Gordon’s ruling that the state’s medical marijuana law is legal, pointing out that marijuana is illegal under federal drug laws.

Montgomery argues the county could suffer “irreparable harm” if county officials are made to “commit violations of federal law by facilitating” the manufacturing and distribution of marijuana.

Attorneys Jeffrey Kaufman and Ezekiel Edwards, who represent potential dispensary White Mountain Health Center, disagreed with the notion that the medical marijuana law requires government workers to engage in activities that would expose them to prosecution.

Meanwhile, Kaufman filed an application Friday for attorney fees. He is seeking $45,003 from Maricopa County and the state of Arizona, since Attorney General Tom Horne intervened in the case.

 

http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/20121214arizona-medical-marijuana-hearing.html?nclick_check=1

[ilynnboy]

WHO in the hell lives in that Godforsaken Maricopa County?

That County if chock Full of Idiots... Starting with the Sheriff.. Nut jobs.

Kind of reminds me of a Barney Fife run town... Imbeciles all around.

[t-pain]

maricopa county is the city of phoenix. so most of the state lives in that county.

 

like wayne county for michigan.

 

whats strange is that these district attorneys always challenge these medical marijuana laws, with the same arguments, and they always lose. dont you think they would look at other states and see the losses? i guess brains dont factor into it.

[ilynnboy]

Kind of sounds like a Maricopa and Oakland County drink from the same Kool-Aid jar.

You know the one that makes you not want to listen to the voters in your jurisdiction.