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The Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled that the possession of medical marijuana on state college and university campuses is no longer illegal, thanks to a college student who has spent the last three years fighting in court. Medical marijuana has been legal in Arizona since 2010, but former governor Jan Brewer signed a law in 2012 that made possession of medical marijuana on any college campus a class 6 felony, even if the marijuana was legally prescribed by a doctor.
In 2014, Arizona State University senior Andre Maestas was arrested and charged with a felony for having 0.4 grams of weed in his dorm room. Maestas is a legal medical marijuana cardholder, and was prescribed the marijuana for back pain related to misaligned vertebrae. The state eventually dropped the charge down to a class 1 misdemeanor, but the 21-year-old student chose to appeal, in hopes of changing the law.
“Nobody wants to be the person who has to go to court, but I feel that my situation and my case was so that it was an opportunity for this to happen,” Maestas said. Last week, the Court of Appeals ruled that the 2012 bill banning MMJ on campus violated the Arizona Constitution’s protections for…
