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It's been more than a year since Colorado’s neighboring states Nebraska and Oklahoma teamed up to pull the ultimate hater move, filing suit urging the Supreme Court to declare Colorado's pot legalization unconstitutional.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Monday, the high court<\/a> dismissed the suit with Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas being the only two of eight justices to disagree with the ruling.<\/p>\n

In the argument, Nebraska and Oklahoma claimed Colorado's statewide directive legalizing cannabis for recreational use was spilling across the borders, draining state resources to combat anti-drug efforts.<\/p>\n

Mason Tvert is the Denver-based director of communications for the Marijuana Policy Project<\/a> and a co-director of the 2012 initiative that legalized marijuana in the state of Colorado. In a statement received by MERRY JANE<\/em>, Tvert praised the SCOTUS ruling, calling the suit, "meritless."<\/p>\n

"The court made the right decision," Tvert said. "States have every right to regulate the cultivation and sale of marijuana, just as Nebraska and Oklahoma<\/a> have the right to maintain their failed prohibition policies. Colorado has done more to control marijuana than just about any other state in the nation."<\/p>\n

Pro-legalization advocates believe the SCOTUS ruling will set an example for other states that are considering similar laws<\/a> in legislatures and at the ballot box come November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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