Federal Court Rules That Cannabis Protections Do Not Apply to Federal Land – News

This amendment, attached to every annual federal budget bill since 2014, prohibits the Department of Justice from using federal funds to prosecute medical marijuana patients, producers, and caregivers that are legal under state law.

In 2012, three men were busted for upheld the lower court’s ruling. “Even if state law tolerated marijuana cultivation on federal land, federal law forbids such use. Pdf”>the court ruled that it was “irrelevant whether they knew the garden was on federal land,” and that “the government is not required to prove such knowledge” in order to convict them. Now that their appeal has been denied, the two men can be brought to trial again by federal prosecutors.

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