DENVER–The Colorado legislature’s official fiscal analysis of the state’s new “red flag” law, which took effect last week, projects that police and “family or household members” will use it to
The findings contradict fears that underage cannabis consumption would rise after states allowed recreational use by adults.
“We are the first court to opine on whether the sniff of a dog trained to detect marijuana in addition to other substances is a search under a state constitution in a state that has legalized marijuana,” the justices noted, but “we probably won’t be the last.”
The basic problem, as with other “red flag” laws, is that the process is rigged against the respondent from the beginning.
This situation is the reverse of the one encountered by state-licensed suppliers of marijuana, which remains completely illegal at the federal level.
Their argument shows how readily some conservative Republicans let their anti-pot prejudices override their federalist principles.
What happened here is pretty clear: Morrissey abused his office to punish people for speech that offended him.
Iannicelli was not trying to affect the outcome of any specific trial, but merely passing out pamphlets with general information about the rights of jurors.
The problem that Nebraska and Oklahoma face is not that Colorado has decided to let people get high; it’s that Nebraska and Oklahoma insist on trying to stop them.
Again, don’t make the rookie mistake of assuming that “marijuana-related” incidents are related to marijuana.
As Childears observed, “an act of Congress is the only way to solve this problem.”
As Childears observed, “an act of Congress is the only way to solve this problem.”
