A three-judge U.S. appeals court has indicated it’s unlikely to side with a group of cannabis businesses aiming to overturn federal marijuana prohibition via a constitutional challenge.
According to Reuters, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston voiced serious concerns that the legal challenge argued by superlawyer David Boies could upend precedent since the Supreme Court upheld the national ban in 2005 – despite major shifts in recreational and medical marijuana legalization across the majority of the country.
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“Congress’ overarching goal was to control the supply and demand of controlled substances in both lawful and unlawful channels,” U.S. Circuit Judge Julie Rikelman, an appointee of President Joe Biden, said, according to Reuters.
“And that hasn’t changed.”
The appeals court expressed
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