DENVER, CO — Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson has joined his counterpart in Oklahoma in adding themselves to a lawsuit challenging legal marijuana in Colorado.
The two states will be plaintiffs in a case being considered by an appeals court in Denver. This comes after the U.S. Supreme Court chose not to hear a case on the issue earlier this year.
The appeal combines two separate cases. One on behalf of a Colorado couple who own land near a recreational marijuana growing facility and another that was brought by a group of sheriffs from Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas.
Nebraska and Oklahoma argue they have unique sovereign rights in stopping marijuana from crossing their state borders and shouldn’t be left out as the courts weigh this issue.
