The cannabis multistate operator behind a constitutional challenge to federal marijuana prohibition that was dismissed by a lower federal court is vowing to take the issue to the U.S. Supreme Court.
That’s the only venue that can overturn a 2005 Supreme Court decision upholding federal bans on the drug, U.S. District Court Judge Mark Mastroianni ruled Monday in dismissing the case, according to Reuters.
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Darren Weiss, president of Verano Holdings Corp., one of the plaintiffs in the case, called the decision a “great result.”
“We’re taking this all the way to the Supreme Court!” he wrote in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter,
Path to the Supreme Court
Last fall, Chicago-headquartered Verano and three Massachusetts-based plaintiffs sued U.S. Attorney General
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