The effort by four cannabis businesses, including one marijuana multistate operator, to undo federal marijuana prohibition via a constitutional challenge was met with skepticism by a federal judge in Massachusetts on Wednesday.
The cannabis companies, led by Chicago-based MSO Verano Holdings, last year hired superlawyer David Boies to revisit an argument – dismissed in 2005 by the U.S. Supreme Court – that the federal Controlled Substances Act unconstitutionally harms their businesses.
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Marijuana legality case meant for Supreme Court
The lawsuit once again is meant to reach the Supreme Court, where the plaintiffs hope the justices will issue a different ruling than the one reached 19 years ago, before the current patchwork of state-regulated marijuana markets.
According to news agency Reuters, Boies admitted in
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