Pubdate: Mon, 12 Jan 2015
Source: Fort Collins Coloradoan (CO)
Copyright: 2015 The Fort Collins Coloradoan
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Author: Don Petrone

STATES SUING OVER POT MUST ASSESS OWN BACKYARDS

In response to the recent lawsuit by the states of Nebraska and 
Oklahoma against Colorado for its marijuana legalization, I have two comments:

1) My personal contacts both in Nebraska and Oklahoma claim that far 
back in memory, marijuana as a crop for personal use and possibly for 
inter-state sale can be readily produced amid the thousands of acres 
of other crops in these states.

2) This being the case with Oklahoma and Nebraska: In the past, how 
much effort or success have their state law enforcement agencies had 
with stopping any marijuana flow from their heavily formed areas into 
Colorado? Word has it that anyone in these two states who wants to 
grow marijuana can simply grow it on their own farming acreage, 
despite any "inconvenience" of buying it in Colorado.

Maybe Nebraska and Oklahoma need to assess their own backyards and 
stop telling Colorado what to do.

Don Petrone lives in Fort Collins.
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