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Thanks to a ruling by Judge Daniel P. Dalton of the Whiteside Country, patients registered under the state’s medical cannabis program can now make a case for themselves when the police pull them over for cannabis-related searches. They cannot also be arrested if their immediate surroundings, such as their car, rooms, clothes, and so on, smell like marijuana.