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Colorado’s neighbors are not happy about marijuana legalization.

The attorneys general of Oklahoma and Nebraska filed a lawsuit on Thursday with the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that Colorado’s commercialized marijuana system violates the constitution.

“Oklahoma and states surrounding Colorado are being impacted by Colorado’s decision to legalize and promote the commercialization of marijuana which has injured Oklahoma’s ability to enforce our state’s policies against marijuana,” Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt said in a statement on Thursday, referring to Colorado’s Amendment 64, which legalized marijuana in that state.

In the lawsuit, the states argue that Colorado’s law violates the supremacy clause of the Constitution, which states that federal laws takes precedence over state law.

“In passing and enforcing Amendment 64, the State of Colorado has created a dangerous gap in the federal drug control system enacted by the United States Congress,” they write in the suit. “Marijuana flows from this gap into neighboring states, undermining Plaintiff States’ own marijuana bans, draining their treasuries, and placing stress on their criminal justice systems.”

89Hen wrote:kalm, are you for legalizing prostitution?

Baldy wrote:Actually, it's not a "you" problem.
Colorado is breaking federal law and (on the surface) will most likely lose the case...as they should.

Baldy wrote:Actually, it's not a "you" problem.
Colorado is breaking federal law and (on the surface) will most likely lose the case...as they should.

kalm wrote:

89Hen wrote:kalm, are you for legalizing prostitution?

Absolutely.

Grizalltheway wrote:

Baldy wrote:Actually, it's not a "you" problem.
Colorado is breaking federal law and (on the surface) will most likely lose the case...as they should.

Where are the Bundy types to step in and protect CO and WA against the tyrany of the evil feds??

Baldy wrote:Actually, it's not a "you" problem.
Colorado is breaking federal law and (on the surface) will most likely lose the case...as they should.

Grizalltheway wrote:

Baldy wrote:Actually, it's not a "you" problem.
Colorado is breaking federal law and (on the surface) will most likely lose the case...as they should.

Where are the Bundy types to step in and protect CO and WA against the tyrany of the evil feds??

Chizzang wrote:

Baldy wrote:Actually, it's not a "you" problem.
Colorado is breaking federal law and (on the surface) will most likely lose the case...as they should.

Some states are actually catching on

The state of Oregon figured it out pretty quickly...
Being Next to Washington they were losing a lot of TAX revenue
So Marijuana will be legalized in Oregon in 2015

in 10 years none of this will matter

AZGrizFan wrote:

Grizalltheway wrote:
Where are the Bundy types to step in and protect CO and WA against the tyrany of the evil feds??

They're in their parents basements stoned to the bejesus.

89Hen wrote:kalm, are you for legalizing prostitution?

Grizalltheway wrote:Nebraksa and Oklahoma should focus their energy on cleaning up their rampant meth problems.

GannonFan wrote:

Grizalltheway wrote:Nebraksa and Oklahoma should focus their energy on cleaning up their rampant meth problems.

Should just legalize meth and collect the tax revenue from it.

Vidav wrote:

GannonFan wrote:
Should just legalize meth and collect the tax revenue from it.

Seems like a good idea. Especially because it's the same thing as weed, basically.

Baldy wrote:

Chizzang wrote:
Some states are actually catching on

The state of Oregon figured it out pretty quickly...
Being Next to Washington they were losing a lot of TAX revenue
So Marijuana will be legalized in Oregon in 2015

in 10 years none of this will matter

That's great, and I don't have a problem with it whatsoever.
However, marijuana is still illegal in the eyes of the Fed, so until that changes you're gonna see a lot of these lawsuits.