The US Supreme Court has declined to hear a lawsuit challenging Colorado’s marijuana legalization law, reports The New York Times.Two other High Plains states, Nebraska and Oklahoma, had sought to use a rare procedure to attack the Colorado law by going directly to the high court.
The two states minced no words. Their case read, in part: “The State of Colorado authorizes, oversees, protects and profits from a sprawling . . . marijuana . . . organization . . . If this entity were based south of our border, the federal government would prosecute it as a drug cartel.”
Colorado officials replied that Nebraska and Oklahoma could pursue their objections in a more conventional suit filed in a federal trial court. The Constitution does indeed give the court “original jurisdiction” to hear disputes between states. But such cases are rarely taken up. And the justices were having none of it.