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Colorado officials defend marijuana legalization at U.S. Supreme Court

Submitted by Marijuana News on Mon, 03/30/2015 - 08:00

Robert Grandt works in the grow room at 3D Cannabis Center in Denver on March 11, 2015.

Arguing that two neighboring states are dangerously attempting "to selectively manipulate Colorado's marijuana laws," state Attorney General Cynthia Coffman on Friday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a landmark lawsuit filed by Nebraska and Oklahoma over marijuana legalization.

The lawsuit seeks to strike down Colorado's licensing of recreational marijuana stores. Nebraska and Oklahoma officials argue that the stores have caused a flood of marijuana into their states, stretching their law enforcement agencies thin and threatening their sovereignty.

But in the response filed Friday, Coffman argued that closing only recreational marijuana stores would destroy an innovative approach that Colorado has taken in trying to kill the black market for marijuana.

"Plaintiff States seek to strike down the laws and regulations that are designed to channel demand away from this black market and into...

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