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Medical marijuana

PHOENIX — The director of the Department of Child Services in Arizona improperly put a woman on its registry of “substantiated instances of child abuse and neglect” for using marijuana while she was pregnant, an appeals court in Arizona ruled. The woman was certified under the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act to use the drug to treat chronic nausea, and her certifying physician knew she was pregnant.

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Categories / Appeals, Briefs, Government, Health

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