"Health & Medical News"

A U.S. District Court judge dismissed a lawsuit against the Drug Enforcement Administration centering on cultivation of industrial hemp and said that the issue needs to be decided by Congress, not the courts.

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported Nov. 29 that Judge Daniel Hovland denied a bid by a pair of North Dakota farmers to force the federal government to allow them to legally grow hemp, a close cousin of marijuana.

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The presence of illicit drugs in a household alone is not enough to make a case for child endangerment under Utah state law, the Utah Supreme Court has ruled.

The Deseret Morning News reported Oct. 27 that the court said that the child-endangerment statute can only be applied if a child has “reasonable” access to drugs. The ruling came in response to a pair of cases where women were charged with child endangerment after being arrested on drug and drug-paraphernalia charges.

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