Colorado Defends Pot Law, Says States Free to Legalize Weed

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Colorado Defends Pot Law, Says States Free to Legalize Weed

DENVER — Mar 27, 2015, 7:32 PM ET
By KRISTEN WYATT Associated Press

States are free to legalize marijuana, Colorado argued Friday in a filing to the U.S. Supreme Court in response to a lawsuit from neighboring states that have asked the nation's highest court to shut down Colorado's pot law.

The filing marks the first time Colorado has defended legal marijuana in writing. The federal government did not sue to block the state's 2012 vote to legalize pot for all adults over 21.

Colorado said that Nebraska and Oklahoma should sue the federal government for not enforcing the Controlled Substances Act, not other states. Colorado said the states' "quarrel is not with Colorado but with the federal government's" approach to letting states experiment with pot law.

"Nebraska and Oklahoma filed this case in an attempt to reach across their borders and selectively invalidate state laws with which they disagree," Colorado argued.

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[fizzgig]

1. it's only those two states twisted up about legalization

nothing from utah, wyoming, new mexico, kansas or arizona (i'm counting the four corners region as a border). it's only a few hours across the oklahoma panhandle to texas and they haven't made a peep, either.

of course, my sheriff is suing to overturn 64, saying enforcing the state constitution is contrary to his duty to uphold the us constitution. my city is liberal, my county is not.