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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 After felony charge, ASU student appeals medical-marijuana ban on campus 🌿After felony charge, ASU student appeals medical-marijuana ban on campus
Arizona is the only state where medical-marijuana patients can face felony charges if they use or possess it on a college campus
An Arizona State University student is asking an appeals court to overturn the law that makes it illegal for him to have physician-recommended medical marijuana in his dorm room.
Andre Maestas, 20, an ASU junior and medical-marijuana cardholder, was arrested in 2014 and charged with a felony for having 0.6 grams of weed in his room on campus, roughly the equivalent of one joint.
He is the first to challenge a 2012 statute banning medical marijuana on state university campuses, which the Legislature passed two years after Arizona voters approved a ballot initiative to legalize medical marijuana.
The statute makes it a class 6 felony to possess marijuana on a college campus, even if it's medically recommended. Class 6 felonies can be reduced to Class 1 misdemeanors, which occurred in Maestas' case. He was found...
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