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The Supreme Court has refused to hear a challenge to Colorado's recreational cannabis law from neighboring states:
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lawsuit filed by the states of Nebraska and Oklahoma against their neighbor Colorado over a law approved as a ballot initiative by Colorado voters in 2012 that allows the recreational use of marijuana. The court declined to hear the case filed by Nebraska and Oklahoma, which said that marijuana is being smuggled across their borders and noted that federal law still prohibits the drug. Two conservative justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, said they would have heard the case.
Nebraska and Oklahoma contended that drugs such as marijuana threaten the health and safety of children and argued that Colorado had created "a dangerous gap" in the federal drug control system. Colorado stands by its law. It noted that the Obama administration has indicated the federal government lacks the resources and inclination to enforce fully the federal marijuana ban.
Also at The Washington Post, NYT.
See the Plaintiffs' brief, and Colorado's brief in opposition.
(Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Monday March 21 2016, @10:39PM
This makes is especially telling that the conservative justices' disdain for drugs apparently trumps their usual die-hard support of states rights. Interesting exception there isn't it?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 21 2016, @10:45PM
Not really. They also claim to be for "small government" but love pork spending for the DoD and having governments regulate morality and people's sexuality. They're bog-standard hypocrites.
(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Monday March 21 2016, @11:18PM
I was hoping that Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito would have ruled that Interstate Commerce requires legal trade, and thus if the plaintiff states have banned it, enforcement of that ban is fully up to them.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Monday March 21 2016, @11:37PM
Republicans are not conservatives. Democrats are not liberals.
As soon as people stop conflating parties and positions, everything will make sense.
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Tuesday March 22 2016, @12:08AM
ⓋⒶ☮✝🕊 Secession is the right of all sentient beings