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The country could become one of the world’s largest legal marijuana markets.
Eduardo Nicolas Alvear Gonzalez was caught on video smoking marijuana inside the U.S. Capitol during last month’s riot.
A circuit judge ruled that the measure, which was approved by voters last fall, would have created broad changes to state government.
Officials voted to exclude marijuana after cannabis activists said the law would take away their only legal place to smoke.
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A “yes” vote on both referendums would arguably make the nation of 5 million one of the more liberal countries in the world.
Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, or CHS, causes severe abdominal pain, nausea and “cyclic vomiting” among regular marijuana users.
The suspect approached the bench to discuss his sentence but instead expressed his views on legalizing marijuana before lighting up a marijuana cigarette and smoking it in front of the judge.
"They treat us like animals," he said of police searching his car while he performed in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Both Michigan and Illinois, which allows sales starting on Jan. 1, are officially joining nine other states that broadly allow marijuana sales.
The victim ordered his tea with "extra lemon," which he now believes was code for marijuana, since he found three bags of weed in his cup.