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The subscription service is currently unavailable. Please try again later.PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Friday that medical marijuana cardholders don’t have immunity from prosecution under a state DUI law that prohibits drivers from having in their bodies any amount of marijuana or its chemical compound that causes impairment.
But the state high court’s unanimous decision also said cardholders can try to show in court that they didn’t have enough of the compound in their systems to be impaired. An attorney who filed a brief for a defense lawyers group said the ruling was welcome because it overturns a lower court’s ruling that medical marijuana cardholders could be prosecuted for merely driving after using marijuana.
“Now at least they can drive,” said David Euchner, an assistant Pima County public defender.
Arizona is among 23 states that allow medical marijuana use. States are wrangling with a host of legal issues stemming from implementation of medical marijuana programs.
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