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February 20, 2015

Colorado residents ask feds to block legal pot

  • The lawsuits claim that federal racketeering laws allow plaintiffs to win damages from pot businesses that flout federal law.
    • By KRISTEN WYATT
    Associated Press

    DENVER — Colorado already is being sued by two neighboring states for legalizing marijuana. Now, the state faces groundbreaking lawsuits from its own residents, who are asking a federal judge to order the new recreational industry to close.

    The owners of a mountain hotel and a southern Colorado horse farm argue in a pair of lawsuits filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Denver that the 2012 marijuana-legalization measure has hurt their property and that the marijuana industry is stinky and attracts unsavory visitors.


     
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