The Respect State Marijuana Laws Act of 2017: Federalism and Recreational Marijuana
Under current federal law, a grower in Oregon could face “not less than twenty years” for selling marijuana to dispensaries in its neighboring states, Washington and California, even though marijuana is completely legalized in all three states. As of 2015, 44.5% of Americans over the age of twenty-six have admitted to having tried marijuana or hashish in their lifetime. That statistic increases to 53% concerning Americans aged eighteen to twenty-five. Marijuana has been decri