Montana’s medical marijuana law doesn’t protect pot-smoking patients from federal prosecution, and even a Justice Department memo can’t change that, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Donald Malloy dismissed a civil lawsuit brought by 14 Montana medical marijuana patients and providers whose homes and businesses were raided by……

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Montana’s Medical Pot Law Trumped by Federal Law, Court Rules

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Lest there be any question, the U.S. Constitution’s supremacy clause still applies to medical marijuana. A federal judge has ruled that federal laws trump Montana’s state laws about medical pot, and patient advocates aren’t pleased.

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Smoke ‘Legal’ Medical Pot, Still Get Arrested by Feds

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Is warrantless GPS tracking legal? We asked this question back in November, and on Monday, we were given an official answer. Sort of

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Cops Need Warrant to Track You Via GPS

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Police should probably get a warrant before attaching a GPS tracking device to a suspect’s vehicle. Or so implies the Supreme Court

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Supreme Court Rules GPS Tracking Requires a Search Warrant

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Today’s Supreme Court decision has once again left Texas’ legislative future up in the air.

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Interim Texas Redistricting Maps Trashed by Supreme Court

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The state of Louisiana says that they are about to be one congressional seat short and it’s all because illegal immigrants are included in the national census. Attorney General Buddy Caldwell has filed suit in the U.S. Supreme Court

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Illegal Immigrants Cost LA Congress Seat?

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The search for a missing Washington toddler has taken a strange turn–into sugar daddy land. The boy’s mother, Julia Biryukova, had posted on seekingarrangement.com, a site used by those seeking a sugar daddy (or baby) soul mate. Police are now questioning the site’s owner about the case, hoping to find…..

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Are Sugar Daddies Legal?

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Support for legalizing marijuana is growing, if recent statistics are any indication.

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Weed, the People: America is Embracing Marijuana

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For the second time in two years, the Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether juvenile life sentences violate the 8th Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.

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Juvenile Life Sentences Go Before Supreme Court

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Chantix’s suicide risks are higher compared to other smoking-cessation treatments, according to a new study appearing in the journal PLoS One. The drug aims to help individuals quit smoking.

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Chantix’s Suicide Side Effects Worse Than First Thought

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