Editor's Note: This Christian Science Monitor article is interesting, but I don't think the analogy drawn in the lede paragraph is appropriate. Colorado's legalized, regulated marijuana market is hardly akin to a marijuana party. That analogy suggests a bit of bias against the industry and conjures up a negative image. Would a "neighbors' round-the-clock marijuana party" generate millions in tax revenue for the state? Create thousands of new jobs? Help stifle the black market for marijuana?Â
Nebraska and Oklahoma say marijuana laws in neighboring Colorado are causing harm to their states and want the US Supreme Court to intervene. On Monday, court showed interest in the case by asking the Obama administration for a brief.
What happens when your neighbor insists on having round-the-clock marijuana parties? Do you start having your own marijuana parties? Do you ignore your neighbor? Or do you complain to the police?
That’s pretty much the position of two states — Oklahoma and Nebraska — who are fed up with their pot-smoking neighbor Colorado.
The two states are asking the United States Supreme Court to take up their complaint that the legalization of marijuana in neighboring Colorado is causing irreparable harm in their own states, including significant interstate trafficking of marijuana grown, sold, and distributed legally in Colorado.
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