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Posted on 03/21/2016 4:46:56 PM PDT by Wolfie
Supreme Court rejects suit against Colorado over marijuana law
The Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lawsuit filed by the states of Nebraska and Oklahoma against their neighbor Colorado over a law approved as a ballot initiative by Colorado voters in 2012 that allows the recreational use of marijuana. The court declined to hear the case filed by Nebraska and Oklahoma, which said that marijuana is being smuggled across their borders and noted that federal law still prohibits the drug.
Two conservative justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, said they would have heard the case.
Nebraska and Oklahoma contended that drugs such as marijuana threaten the health and safety of children and argued that Colorado had created "a dangerous gap" in the federal drug control system. Colorado stands by its law.
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Yay, 10th Amendment!
SCOTUS.
Thomas and Alito vote against States’ Rights.
Not true for sure. They could have heard it and upheld states rights.
Amazing how liberals favor States’ Rights when the “right” in question is a cause they support, like legalizing drugs. In any other case, the very idea of federalism meets with their contempt.
As long as it doesnt cross the border, then let them get all Rocky Mountain high.
Or they could have heard it and explained to them that as long as Wickard v Filburn stands they don't have any.
We have a moral problem, not a drug availability problem.
Moral problems will always find something to feed them. It might even be viewed as helpful (in identifying the moral problems) that they show up as drug addictions.
The evangelists of yesteryear did not show up at toney establishments; they showed up at the bowery and skid row and the bars. Because that’s where the people that most obviously needed help were.
We’ve essentially accepted a weaker and weaker and weaker God as we point the fingers of responsibility away from the addicts and towards the items addicted to. Because a TV addiction or a porn addiction is neater on the surface than a drug addiction, we deem it better. But maybe it’s actually a whitewash.
Ask those same liberals why each state can’t make up it’s own mind about......abortion.
Federal law also forces you to buy health insurance from them.
See the problem yet?
ALL KNEEL! The pedophiles and lesbian freak sisters are going to speak!
Actually, this decision means that Colorado doesn't have to kneel to Nebraska, Oklahoma, or the feds on this issue.
Thomas has gone further than any post-Wickard justice in questioning its "substantial effect" standard.
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