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PHOENIX — An Arizona State University student is asking the Court of Appeals to rule that he — and all others with state-issued medical marijuana cards — can legally have their drugs on university and community college campuses.
Attorney Thomas Dean contends state legislators acted illegally in 2012 when they expanded the voter-approved list of where medical marijuana use is illegal. More to the point, he said that makes the conviction of his client, Andre Maestas, invalid.
He is getting a fight from prosecutors.
Deputy Maricopa County Attorney David Cole conceded that the ban on medical marijuana on college and university campuses was not part of what voters approved in 2010 when they enacted the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act. And he acknowledged the Arizona Constitution says lawmakers can tinker with voter-approved laws only when the changes “further the purpose’’ of the original measure.
But Cole contends that this is...
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