kick out my entire defense."

He said he wasn't sure which dispensaries sold the wax to Ruether, or whether Ruether had receipts for his purchases, adding that the information might be discovered later.

Saline said he plans on submitting a special action and motion to stay the case with the Arizona Court of Appeals in the next week or two.

"They'll take it seriously because it's a gray area of the law," he said of the appeals court. "It's an issue of statewide importance."

Dean said that until the legal matter over extracts is settled, law enforcement outside of Maricopa County could in theory decide to act on the decisions of either county judge — Cooper's extract-friendly decision in Maricopa County from 2014, or Nielson's recent decision that extracts are an illegalArizona Supreme Court have consistently ruled in a manner friendly to medical marijuana and the wishes of voters. Odds are probably high that the appellate courts will make the same decision that Cooper made in 2014 — namely, that the language of the medical-marijuana law allows "patients to employ 'certain process[es]' to 'adapt' marijuana 'for a particular purpose' and a 'convenient and practicable use.'"

Judge Nielson "just plain got it wrong," said Gary Smith of the Arizona Cannabis Bar Association, who plans on helping Saline with his defense of Ruether.

Whether the ACLU will help as it did in the Welton case isn't yet known. Welton died of his condition in 2015, but the ACLU may consider a new case on the cannabis issue as a continuation of the boy's