The issue focused on whether federal authorities would have to offer medical marijuana to medical marijuana patients or leave it up to each state to decide.

In their brief, the medical marijuana advocates argued that there's no medical reason for the federal government to force states to stop medical marijuana research.

"As federal medical marijuana research research research studies have continued to collect scientific data and medical benefits and medical conditions have changed, the medical benefits and conditions for medical marijuana have changed as well," the brief says. "To require