Colorado being sued again over marijuana laws...

[kentuck]

http://gazette.com/colorado-residents-are-first-to-ask-feds-to-block-legal-marijuana/article/1546574

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DENVER — Colorado already is being sued by two neighboring states for legalizing marijuana. Now, the state faces groundbreaking lawsuits from its own residents, who are asking a federal judge to order the new recreational industry to close.

The owners of a mountain hotel and a southern Colorado horse farm argue in a pair of lawsuits filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Denver that the 2012 marijuana-legalization measure has hurt their property and that the marijuana industry is stinky and attracts unsavory visitors.

The lawsuits are the first in any state that has legalized recreational or medical marijuana in which its own residents are appealing to the federal government to block pot laws.

"It is a bedrock principle of the United States Constitution that federal law is the supreme law of the land," said David Thompson, a lawyer representing the plaintiffs. "The people of Colorado are free to advocate for a change (in federal drug law), but they must do so through their elected representatives in Congress."

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[bigwillq]

1. kick (nt)

[Glassunion]

2. Hey fucko... I may be unsavory, but I am definitely not stinky.

Kind of sticky with the whole federal law / states rights bit.

[madokie]

3. I'm neither stinky nor unsavory

they can stick that bullshit up their ass

[emulatorloo]

4. I thought Republicans were against "frivolous lawsuits" and pro-states rights

[Nuclear Unicorn]

6. To be fair, if you site search DU "states rights" means pro-slavery or something. nt

[emulatorloo]

7. I need an apostrophe, as could be confused with Prostate Rights

[Nuclear Unicorn]

8. We'll have to probe that first.

[emulatorloo]

9. ...

[edhopper]

5. Um?

Wasn't the current law passed by the voters?
Maybe they should read the 10th Amendment.

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

[workinclasszero]

10. Can't have these unsavory potheads disturbing

All the drunks puking their guts out in dive bars, mountain hotels and horse farms?(WTF) and killing innocent people on the state highways, eh?

And what the hell happened to states rights? A holy intuition to rethug baggers I thought??