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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: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 22 2016, @05:31AM
I'm a citizen of Colorado. I voted to decriminalize pot, so that nonviolent people caught with some small amount of the drug would not get sent to prison, full stop. I did not for the state of events we're currently...enjoying. Stoned people driving, neighborhoods glutted with "dispensaries" trying to get on the books before they're closed, even more goddamned Californication, and in industrial areas, a pervasive, inescapable skunky odor. Unintentional consequences, etc. Pot should not be an industry, but that's what we've got. I would encourage other states looking to decriminalize pot to take a step back, reevaluate, and do it only once other regulations prevent a free-for-all.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday March 22 2016, @11:56AM
I know where you're coming from. On my honeymoon I finally made it to Amsterdam on a long layover. My wife and I went to the area where the "coffee shops" are, thinking it would be fun to try it legally. The skunky smell that greeted us on the street struck us as so ghetto that we turned right around.
Washington DC delenda est.