Friday the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether or not to hear a case filed against Colorado by Oklahoma and Nebraska against the marijuana industry. According to High Times, the case could potentially shut down the legal marijuana market.
These states are claiming that recent legalization of recreational marijuana has resulted in a violation of the Interstate Commerce Clause. This is a measure in the U.S. Constitution that gives a state power to control the goods that flow across its borders.
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The case is also based on a breach of the Supremacy Clause. This clause of the constitution states that the federal government will always trump state law. Seeing as marijuana is still classified as a Schedule I drug, the possession and sale is still federally illegal.
The Obama Administration has advised the court system to ignore this lawsuit, but justices will decide this week whether to entertain the case. If the petition for writ of certiorari is granted and the state is indicted, it will still take years for a verdict to be processed, but ultimately the sale and production of marijuana could be struck down.
However, there is reason to believe this is a long shot. U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr., gatekeeper to the Supreme Court, filed a briefing last year to suggest that hearing this case is a waste of time and recommending that the justices deny the petition. To learn more about this issue, read the full article.
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Speckintime • Mar 4, 2016 at 8:55 pm
With what we know about marijuana today I can’t see how a plant that has so much benefit for so many can be constitutionally illegal.
Freedom takes responsibility and accountability, the founding of the US was an anomaly it wasn’t the rule, that is why the founding fathers had so much reverence and respect for freedom.
Unfortunately it wasn’t carried over to the slave trade because slaves like aborted babies were not considered human,
I don’t know anything that can’t be used or abused, we don’t go back to the horse and buggy because of car accidents.
Banning marijuana does not get rid of marijuana all it does is continue a witch hunt that was created out of graft, greed, lies and racism.
Freedom requires responsibility, those who abuse the law should be punished but laws need to be fair and just.
We don’t punish all those who responsibly enjoy a nice cocktail because of alcoholics but we do punish drunk drivers.
Prescription drug overdose with pain medications are a leading cause of accidental death, many health complications as well as addiction can take place. In some cases, death has been caused even by over-the-counter drugs.
Marijuana laws were never about protecting the public, the damage done to the environment by the poisonous petrochemical industry from a law passed through graft and corruption is a crime in itself against humanity.
.Hemp never should had been made illegal in the first place, it was another casualty to a criminal law built on racism, greed, graft and corruption.
Unfortunately as long as you have powerful people making a fortune from illegal marijuana there will continue to be a fight against legalization.
The problem is that until we that people are willing to go out in masses and vote every incumbent out at every election we will continue to have self serving politicians.
Give them only one term and they won’t get those cushy retirements, raise up patriots in third parties and dilute the rats nests in Washington.
Unfortunately the corruption isn’t just in the politicians, it is also in the masses that refuse to think for themselves and feed on the lies and promises.
Get caught with a bag of weed go to jail, poison a city however not so much.
Meanwhile people are going to prison for growing a plant that helps so many with no quality of life, the Supreme Court upholds confiscating peoples property even though they have not been convicted of a crime.
Billions get spent on corruption while our children’s future gets borrowed away. Truth is stranger then fiction when corruption rules and the worlds full of fools
Those who refuse to defend liberty and justice for all deserve neither, so in the end we the people get the government we deserve the most.