Oct. 24 at 11:36 PM
$MAPS A coalition of marijuana companies has filed a petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up their case challenging the constitutionality of federal prohibition.
About two months after the court accepted an application for an extend the filing deadline, the law firm Boies Schiller Flexner LLP that’s representing the companies submitted the petition for writ of certiorari on Friday.
The case from Massachusetts-based marijuana companies and industry leaders—Canna Provisions, Gyasi Sellers, Wiseacre Farm and Verano Holdings–argues that the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution precludes the federal government from enforcing criminalization laws against intrastate cannabis activity.
