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But wait there is more, even if there was a legitimate business here (which there has never been) johnny law is shutting them down - hot off the presses 12 minutes ago:


http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/03/05/anti-pot-sheriffs-file-lawsuit-against-colorado-legalization



A dozen sheriffs backed by an anti-drug advocacy group are suing to end marijuana legalization in Colorado.

Their lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal court in Denver, is the latest in a flurry of legal challenges to a 2012 voter-approved amendment to the state's constitution.

Colorado sheriffs who joined the suit say they need court guidance on whether they should follow state or federal law. Sheriffs from neighboring Nebraska and Kansas say they’re burdened by an influx of marijuana from the Centennial State.

The suit says federal law – which makes pot possession for any reason outside limited research a crime – overrides state law, and that international treaties further require Colorado to criminalize the drug.


[READ: Pot Use Among Colorado Teens Appears to Drop After Legalization]

The Department of Justice currently allows state and tribal governments to establish regulated recreational marijuana markets, citing prosecutorial discretion, as long as certain enforcement triggers aren’t tripped.

Sheriff Justin Smith of Colorado's Larimer County said at a news conference in the nation's capital that state law “created a constitutional showdown,” and that he hopes for a ruling finding that the U.S. Constitution’s supremacy clause squashes legalization.

"My hope is those supportive of marijuana legalization can find it within themselves to realize we all need an answer to this question," said Sheriff Chad Day of Yuma County, Colorado.

Sheriff Mark Overman of Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska, said Colorado's legalization amendment "has placed an undue burden on taxpayers in my county.”

[DATA: Teen Pot Use Isn't Going Up, Despite Dive in Risk Perception]

“Because of Amendment 64 our jails are full, our court dockets are full,” he said, adding that the reform “completely changed the landscape for marijuana we encounter.”

Overman said most marijuana his deputies seize comes from Colorado. “It is the best marijuana in the world,” he said. “The price has tripled.”

“We think what Colorado has done is illegal,” he said. “If we win, we can reverse what looks like a surrender.”

Sheriff Burton Pianalto of Sherman County, Kansas, said Colorado’s reforms have burdened his department, too.

[ALSO: Colorado's New Attorney General: Pot Legalization 'Not Worth It']

“I do not want or need any more drug dealers or illegal drugs in my county,” he said. “There are more prisoners in my bastille, my jail, and higher costs for arrests.”

Overman and Pianalto said the increase in arrests was not due to enhanced enforcement efforts, but the result of routine traffic stops. "The amount we’re getting off the highways isn’t even legal in Colorado," Pianalto said.

The Drug Free America Foundation is financing the lawsuit. A similar suit was filed by the state governments of Nebraska and Oklahoma in December with the Supreme Court, which has original jurisdiction in disputes between states. Two suits from Coloradans, backed by the group Safe Streets Alliance, were filed in February.

Possession of 1 ounce of marijuana and home-growing of six plants became legal for Colorado adults 21 and older in December 2012. Retail stores opened in January 2014. Stores are also open in Washington state, and Alaska and Oregon are developing regulatory structures after residents in November voted to follow suit.

[READ: D.C. Pot Activists Consider Massive 4/20 'Smoke-In']

Anti-legalization activists predictably were pleased by the lawsuit.

"We hope Attorney General-nominee Loretta Lynch will seriously consider the ramifications of ignoring federal law, and will understand that creating a Big Marijuana industry serves no one except the profiteers who hope to follow in Big Tobacco's footsteps,” Smart Approaches to Marijuana leader Kevin Sabet said in a statement. Lynch said during a Senate confirmation hearing in January she personally opposes marijuana legalization.

But supporters of legalization point out that a majority of Americans tell pollsters they favor legal marijuana and say there’s a better solution for jails full of pot users.

“If these sheriffs are truly worried about a conflict between state and federal marijuana laws, they should stop trying to overturn the will of their own constituents and urge Congress to fix our broken, outdated federal laws,” says Dan Riffle, director of federal policies at the Marijuana Policy Project. “The truth is this isn’t about a legal conflict. It’s another effort by a small handful of anti-marijuana zealots who have made a career out of fighting a war on marijuana and just can’t seem to let it go.


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Tom Angell, chairman of the group Marijuana Majority, says “there will always be some people who desperately try to cling to what’s familiar" and that "these prohibitionists who lost at the ballot box on Election Day are trying to overturn the will of the voters by making a last-ditch attempt in the courts.”

Colorado's law will be defended by the office of state Attorney General Cynthia Coffman, who said last month she opposes marijuana legalization


maybe Qasp can go back to touting Mineseeker instead - it would be just as believable