Arizona Marijuana Law Is Constitutional, State Judge Says
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An Arizona voter-approved law that decriminalizes the possession and sale of marijuana for medical uses isn’t pre-empted by the federal Controlled Substances Act and therefore isn’t unconstitutional, a state judge said.
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Michael Gordon said in an order filed yesterday that the Arizona law doesn’t undermine the purposes of the federal law, which he said was to combat drug abuse and to regulate traffic in controlled substances.