DOJ Urges Supreme Court to Toss Lawsuit Against CO Rec Law

U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, Jr., has formally requested that the Supreme Court decline to hear a lawsuit that seeks to overturn Colorado’s three-year-old recreational cannabis law.

The attorneys general of Nebraska and Oklahoma filed the suit in December 2014, alleging that rec sales in Colorado had led to an increase in illegal trafficking through their states. They asked that the Supreme Court overturn the rec law, and argued that marijuana’s federal status as an illegal…