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The Arizona Supreme Court won’t allow state and local officials to hide behind federal drug laws to throw roadblocks in the path of those who want to sell marijuana. Without comment, the justices have refused to review, much less overturn, a Court of Appeals ruling rejecting arguments that...

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court will decide if state law requires Workers' Compensation Insurance to pay for a millworker's medical marijuana or if the insurer could be charged as an accessory in a drug deal under federal law. Justices are set to hear arguments in the case Wednesday at the...

A California man who authorities say was traveling with $700,000 worth of marijuana has pleaded not guilty to drug charges. Harold Miller waived his right to a preliminary hearing during an appearance in South Central District Court Monday. Court documents say the 71-year-old Sacramento...

The plaintiffs in a lawsuit claiming Mendocino County's cannabis business tax is unconstitutional have appealed the court's decision to dismiss the suit. "All consumers of medical cannabis will ultimately pay that new tax, which is in addition to all the ordinary sales and other taxes that...

A police officer overstepped the state and U.S. Constitution when she touched a female suspect's genitals on the side of the road to inspect for drugs, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled this week. The suspect, Taccasia Porter, appealed a Marion Superior Court decision that said a search...

A DJ was caught bringing €4,000 of cannabis into Dublin Airport up his sleeve, it has been alleged. Thomas Buckley (34) was arrested and charged with a drugs offence after he was stopped by customs officers in the airport. He had arrived on a flight from Spain at the time of the...

A woman suffering pain from an injury arising from a medical condition had relied on cannabis to treat it, Gisborne District Court was told. Forli Hollis, 53, who has nine previous convictions for cannabis offending, acknowledged she had to abide by a legally-acceptable treatment regime...

Maryland's highest court has ruled that finalists to become licensed to grow medical marijuana in the state can defend their interests against a legal challenge over how those finalists were picked. The Court of Appeals on Friday reversed a lower court ruling that barred the finalists from...

Companies in the final running for licenses to grow medical marijuana should be able to defend their multimillion-dollar investments against a legal challenge over how those finalists were picked, an attorney for the state argued Thursday in court. The Court of Appeals, Maryland's top...

The Massachusetts Supreme Court has ruled that a company acted improperly when it fired medical marijuana patient Cristina Barbuto after she tested positive for pot. The Colorado Supreme Court reached the opposite conclusion in an analogous 2015 case, determining that DISH had the right to...

Medical marijuana users are now a protected class in Massachusetts after the state's highest court declared that workers dismissed for positive drug tests can launch anti-discrimination suits against their former employers. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court unanimously ruled on Monday...

After the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled Monday in favor of an employee fired after testing positive for marijuana, some legal experts are shocked. "I can't stress this enough, it's the first case of its kind in the country," said Dale Deitchler, a shareholder at world's largest...

The state's highest court is allowing a woman to sue for being fired for using medical marijuana, reversing a superior court judge who had dismissed her 2015 suit. "[W]e reverse the judge's allowance of the motion to dismiss the plaintiff's claim for handicap discrimination and the related...

Depressed Graham Samuels got a £105 court bill for growing cannabis - but his partner has already penalized him. She was annoyed to discover he had used her attic to cultivate five plants, city magistrates heard. Sarah Roberts, mitigating, told the court: "His partner was completely...

Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Michael Goulding on Friday found a Toledo woman charged with selling marijuana and illegal mushrooms for "spiritual purposes" competent to stand trial on felony drug charges. Charmaine Rose Bassett, 56, of the 3400 block of Secor Road entered not guilty pleas...

A marijuana credit union has won a small victory in its quest to provide banking services to pot businesses in Colorado. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a lower court's ruling that denied Fourth Corner Credit Union's attempt to open a Federal Reserve master account, which is...

Iowa State University lost another appeal in a federal court case over the decision of administrators to prevent a marijuana advocacy group from printing a T-shirt that included the university logo and a marijuana leaf. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday for the second time said...

Information about investors and partners in medical-marijuana businesses is not a trade secret and should be disclosed under Florida's public-records law, an appeals court ruled Friday. A three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal rejected arguments by Surterra Florida LLC, Alpha...

The state's top prosecutor wants police to be able to arrest people for having marijuana on college and university campuses, even if they have a state-issued card allowing them to buy and use the drug. In new court filings Thursday, Attorney General Mark Brnovich contends the Arizona Court of...

The state Supreme Court refused to hear appeals of a medical-marijuana cooperative grower and a dispensary owner. Attorney Bruce Block, who has waged a seven-year court battle on behalf of a client with a cooperative grow in Grand Rapids, says some judges cannot accept legalization of...