surpreme court won't take case

[BOMBAYCAT]

CBS.com

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has rejected an effort by Nebraska and Oklahoma to have Colorado's pot legalization declared unconstitutional.

SCOTUS won't take up the case. All arguments between various states go directly to the Supreme Court. This one had me worried even if NB and OK had a weak case. NB and OK claimed that CO law damaged them.

 

[MJPassion]

The Fed cannot make laws that protect one State from another. Matter of fact, the opposite is called for by the U.S. Constitution. States are required to respect the laws of other states. I forget the exact wording. Might try n find it but not today.

 

[stoned-trout]

nobody wants to go to them states ,,,their jealous....yeehaw..corn fed hoes

 

[Betterhaff]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-decision-means-for-the-future-of-legal-weed/

Interesting points from the above link.

"Congress has no power to compel states to prohibit the cultivation, possession and transfer of marijuana," according to Randy Barnett, an attorney who litigated a Supreme Court case exploring the limits of the CSA. "In the absence of such state prohibition, all such activities are completely legal under state law, notwithstanding that they are illegal under federal law," he wrote last year.

In short, Congress can say that marijuana is illegal at the federal level. But if a state doesn't want to enforce that prohibition itself, it doesn't have to do so. And if it wants to go one step further and set up a market to regulate the trade in the drug, it's free to do that as well.

 

[AvidLerner]

The SCOTUS lacked a majority, the conservative party gave up, knowing they would lose, time, money and the case. Similar argument made about slavery, and states rights, failed in the Courts back then. Conservatives always do the same things wanting the same things, other people's rights as their own rights. peace.

 

[Betterhaff]

The SCOTUS lacked a majority...

"But by a 6-2 majority, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case, without comment."