Do Nebraska and Oklahoma Have a Strong Case as They Challenge Colorado's Marijuana Laws?

lawsuit Nebraska and Oklahoma filed against Colorado last year in the U.S. Supreme Court over the Centennial State’s legalization of marijuana is flawed, a legal scholar who is an expert on federalism and drug laws said at an event in Seattle on Tuesday.

“Their characterizations of what Colorado and these other states are doing is misleading,” said Robert Mikos, director of Vanderbilt Law School’s program in law and government. He spoke during a panel discussion at the National Conference of State Legislatures legislative summit.

Nebraska and Oklahoma filed the lawsuit last December. They argue that by legalizing recreational marijuana Colorado has “created a dangerous gap in the federal drug control system enacted by the United States Congress.” Nebraska and Oklahoma also claim that marijuana is flowing out of Colorado and into their states, which they say undermines their own bans on the substance, burdening government budgets and causing...

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