Nebraska and Oklahoma sue Colorado over marijuana legalization

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Ernest is correct that they have no standing. Hopefully the voters kick these awful AGs out next election for wasting state money.

Also hilarious that Republicans are suing other states under the idea that federalism is unconstitutional.

yeah, the quote that legal marijuana is "unconstitutional" really got me.  thanks to the Founders for their wisdom in writing the "nobody shalt be allowed cannabis" clause

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it won't get to SCOTUS.. the real fight will be if the next prez goes hard after pot and the feds sue CO/OR and wherever else come 2017.

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it won't get to SCOTUS.. the real fight will be if the next prez goes hard after pot and the feds sue CO/OR and wherever else come 2017.

Great! Another wedge issue for Clinton to use against the Republicans.

I'd be very surprised if Clinton runs as pro-pot legalization.  the best we can hope for is for her to take an open federalist position on the issue.  most likely she will be ambiguous in her answers.  even Obama has never publicly addressed the issue himself to my knowledge, he gave CO/WA the thumbs up via Holder in a private meeting w/Hickenlooper et al.

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it won't get to SCOTUS.. the real fight will be if the next prez goes hard after pot and the feds sue CO/OR and wherever else come 2017.

Great! Another wedge issue for Clinton to use against the Republicans.

I'd be very surprised if Clinton runs as pro-pot legalization.  the best we can hope for is for her to take an open federalist position on the issue.  most likely she will be ambiguous in her answers.  even Obama has never publicly addressed the issue himself to my knowledge, he gave CO/WA the thumbs up via Holder in a private meeting w/Hickenlooper et al.

Yeah, she'll take the Obama position of "I personally oppose it, but states are free to experiment as they wish" or whatever. I think that's more or less what she said in an interview back in summer. Most of the Republican candidates (with the exception of Paul and maybe a couple others who want to try to carve out a niche) will take a hardline stance against legalization, and will probably propose cracking down on states that have done so.

"On recreational, states are the laboratories of democracy," Clinton said. "We have at least two states that are experimenting with that right now. I want to wait and see what the evidence is."

doesn't sound too awful, and you'd figure she's unlikely to move right on this particular issue from 2014 to 2017.