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Dobson v. McClennen

Citations

  • 238 Ariz. 389
  • 361 P.3d 374

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • explaining that “evidence of possession of a registry card would generally be admissible in an (A)(3) prosecution” to show that the cardholder’s marijuana use was authorized by the AMMA
  • stating that the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act (AMMA
  • Section 28-1381(A)(3)\requires the state to prove that the defendant has been driving or in control of a vehicle while any amount of the proscribed drugs or their impairing metabolites are present.\
  • unlike alcohol, there is no general threshold of THC concentration that establishes impairment
  • “The risk of uncertainty in this regard should fall upon the patients, who generally know or should know if they are impaired and can control when they drive, rather than on the members of the public whom they encounter on our streets.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Authored, Bales, Berch, Brutinel, Pelander, Timmer

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