Oklahoma’s own attorney general is being criticized by state lawmakers from his own party, who said the suit he filed against the legalization of marijuana in Colorado indicated troubling implications for the rights of the state.
Just last month, Nebraska and Oklahoma asked the permission of the Supreme Court to make Colorado’s marijuana law legal --- indicating it’s in violation of the supremacy clause of the Constitution, which makes the federal law as the highest form of law in the country.
A number of Republican state lawmakers in Oklahoma signed a letter petitioning Oklahoma attorney general Scott Pruitt to pull out.
Pruitt, who calls himself as an advocate for the rights of the state, won’t be backing down, saying that GOP lawmakers misunderstood the litigation concept.
Colorado became the first state in the country to allow the sale of recreational marijuana in January, after voters a few years back passed a ballot measure to legalizing the drug for those who are 21 years and beyond.
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