The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2005, however, that federal authorities could continue under federal law to prosecute California patients and providers engaged in the cultivation and use of marijuana for medical purposes.
A quick guide to using the colon. A colon is made up of two dots, one placed above the other. One common use of the colon is to introduce a list of items. For example: To make the perfect jam sandwich you need three things: some bread, butter and strawberry jam. Three items are listed in the sentence above.
Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: Avoid more than one semicolon per sentence EXCEPT when using semicolons to replace commas in a list. (That's when you have a list, and there are commas in the listed items, so you use semicolons where you would normally use commas. Ex: I've been to Miami, Florida; Hollywood, California; and New York, New York.)