Suit Over Pot’s ‘Benefit’ Stumbles

A California-based nonprofit can't put the federal government on trial for saying that marijuana has no medical use -- but it might get to challenge the government for blowing deadlines, a federal judge ruled last week. In an eight-page ruling, Judge William Alsup agreed with DOJ lawyers that the federal Information Quality Act provides for only administrative, not judicial, review for people to challenge the "quality, objectivity, utility and integrity" of information disseminated by federal agencies.

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