Oklahoma and Nebraska will have to try harder if they hope to stop Colorado’s adult-use marijuana industry.
According to the Denver Post, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver upheld a lower court’s dismissal of the two states’ attempt to overturn Colorado’s recreational marijuana law.
The state attorneys general from Oklahoma and Nebraska last year had joined a lawsuit that included a group of sheriffs from both states to stop Colorado’s MJ industry.
The states joined the suit after they failed at the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Colorado recreational marijuana law.
The new case that the states ultimately latched onto involved two other lawsuits attempting to quash the Colorado law:
- One filed in March 2015 by a group of sheriffs from three states
- Another filed in February 2015 by Washington DC-based Safe Streets Alliance on behalf of a Pueblo, Colorado, couple whose land abuts a cannabis grow operation
