Legalize It: Supreme Court Tells Obama To Make Up His Mind On Marijuana

It’s war between the states, Supreme Court-style, and this time the stakes are green, marijuana plants that is.

Nebraska and Oklahoma are suing the state of Colorado over its marijuana laws and the Supreme Court wants to know what President Barack Obama thinks about legalizing marijuana.

The two states claim Colorado has created a “cross-border nuisance” by legalizing marijuana and claim their citizens are affected by the increase in marijuana coming from nearby Colorado.

Aaron Cooper, spokesman for Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, told the Wall Street Journal that Obama caused the marijuana lawsuit in the first place.

“The administration’s wholesale disregard for the law led Oklahoma and Nebraska to sue Colorado to stop the stream of illegal marijuana flowing into our states as a result of Colorado’s legalization of the commercial production and sale of marijuana.”

Americans live in a federalist system so even though marijuana is...

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