Solicitor General Opinion Favors Colorado's Marijuana Industry

The Solicitor General of the United Sates says that recreational marijuana is Colorado’s business and there is no need for the U.S. Supreme Court to review claims from Nebraska and Oklahoma that they are owed something because the legal weed is being trafficked beyond the Centennial State’s borders.

Nebraska and Oklahoma sued Colorado a year ago and demanded the Supreme Court make a decision in the dispute among states. It took Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. and his team at the U.S. Department of Justice seven months to respond to the Supreme Court’s request for the federal government decision.

The neighboring states claim that marijuana cultivated and sold in Colorado is being ‘trafficked” within their borders because there are no safeguards to prevent it. The two states also say that Colorado’s Amendment 64 leaves a “dangerous gap” in the federal drug control system enacted by Congress and that...

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