Smith: Pot suit filed over legal clarity, not beliefs

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Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith says his lawsuit challenging marijuana legalization in Colorado was not spurred by his own beliefs on pot, but is instead meant to clarify a "quagmire" of conflicting state and federal laws.

"I always tell people, take marijuana out of it and put anything else in there, and look at the constitutional issue of, 'are we going to continue with the principle of federal supremacy?'" Smith told the Coloradoan Thursday morning.

Smith is the lead plaintiff in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday that challenges the state's legalization of recreational marijuana. In it, he argues that being tasked with upholding Colorado's constitutional amendment puts him in direct conflict with the U.S. Constitution and federal law.

"We're to protect the rights of individuals in our state," Smith said. "… By defending the right of those individuals (to possess and consume marijuana), it means violating federal law."

the rest from the coloradoan

he'll run opposed in 2016 :barf:

at least he's not on fox blathering about the war on christmas like his predecessor.

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1. This idiot yahoo pretty much dislikes everything about the federal government

except the marijuana prohibition and the second amendment. What a fucking hypocrite. Meantime his department's computer system has been hacked a few times. Probably those stoner techies.

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2. I'm sure he's always been for federal supremacy and the EPA

and he's worried about the bunnies getting stoned and eating all our gardens and fritos, don't you know? It's a slippery slope, next the prairie dogs, then the coyotes. And have you ever seen a stoned rattlesnake; it's not a pretty sight. What would Colorado ever do without our crazies sitting down in Denver, upholding the State constitution and protecting us from evils like marijuana?