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Drug Policy Alliance Blog: Marijuana Prohibition in Nebraska and Oklahoma is the Real Nuisance

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 22, 2014.

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By Bill Piper

The attorneys general of Nebraska and Oklahoma have launched a lawsuit against Colorado claiming the state’s 2012 voter initiative legalizing, regulating, and taxing marijuana is causing marijuana to come into their states, creating a public nuisance and consuming law enforcement resources.

Leaving aside the fact that states, and for that matter the federal government, cannot force states to criminalize marijuana, the lawsuit gets things backwards – it is…

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