OKLAHOMA CITY (Legal Newsline) – Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt filed a brief that asks the Supreme Court of the United States to consider the question of whether Colorado’s recreational marijuana law violates federal law.
The brief comes after arguments from the Obama administration that claimed the Supreme Court should ignore the case. The states of Oklahoma and Nebraska, however, want the court to sue Colorado for the damage its laws are causing their citizens.
“The state of Colorado would be prosecuted as a drug cartel if it were based south of the border,” Pruitt said. “The Obama administration has failed to enforce federal law, and that neglect has allowed Oklahoma and Nebraska to suffer harm from Colorado’s marijuana trafficking.
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