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One Toke Over The (State) Line: Constitutional Limits On "Pot Tourism" Regulations, Brannon P. Denning
One Toke Over The (State) Line: Constitutional Limits On "Pot Tourism" Regulations, Brannon P. Denning
Brannon P. Denning
Among the myriad legal issues confronting states like Colorado that are experimenting with the legalization of marijuana is the need to regulate “pot tourism” by persons from other states where marijuana is not legal. In Colorado, the final recommendations from the Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force included a proposal “to limit purchases by state residents to an ounce at a time and to a quarter of an ounce for out-of-state visitors.” The lower restrictions for nonresidents are designed to deter pot tourists from “smurfing”—visiting a number of different dispensaries to accumulate larger amounts of marijuana with a view to illegally …
One Toke Over The (State) Line: Constitutional Limits On "Pot Tourism" Restrictions, Brannon P. Denning
One Toke Over The (State) Line: Constitutional Limits On "Pot Tourism" Restrictions, Brannon P. Denning
Brannon P. Denning
Among the myriad legal issues confronting states like Colorado that are experimenting with the legalization of marijuana is the need to regulate “pot tourism” by persons from other states where marijuana is not legal. In Colorado, the final recommendations from the Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force included a proposal “to limit purchases by state residents to an ounce at a time and to a quarter of an ounce for out-of-state visitors.” The lower restrictions for nonresidents are designed to deter pot tourists from “smurfing”—visiting a number of different dispensaries to accumulate larger amounts of marijuana with a view to illegally …
What Hath Raich Wrought? Five Takes, Brannon P. Denning, Glenn H. Reynolds
What Hath Raich Wrought? Five Takes, Brannon P. Denning, Glenn H. Reynolds
Brannon P. Denning
Written for a paper symposium on Gonzales v. Raich, 545 U.S. 1 (2005), we describe the effects of the decision on what had seemed a renewed interest on the part of the Court to limit federal power.