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65 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 719 (2014-2015)
Marijuana Localism

handle is hein.journals/cwrlrv65 and id is 759 raw text is: CASE WESTERN RESERVE LAW REVIEW - VOLUME 65 - ISSUE 3 - 2015 MARIJUANA LOCALISM Robert A. Mikost CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ............................................... 719 I. LOCALISM THEORY . ....................................... 727 11. MARIJUANA LOCALISM...................................... 731 A. The Case For..........................................731 B. The Case Against.......................................737 1. Marijuana Smuggling .......................................... 737 2. Marijuana Tourism.. ........................... ............ 745 111. THE LESSONS FROM ALCOHOL LOCALISM ............................. 750 IV. RECOMMENDATIONS .................................................. 761 A. What States Could Do .........................................761 B. What States Have Done ........................ ..........764 C. What States Should Do .......................... .........766 CONCLUSION ................................................................ 767 INTRODUCTION The states have largely prevailed in their struggle against the federal government for control over marijuana policy. More than twenty states have already legalized marijuana for some purposes under state law, and the number is sure to grow.' Though the federal government has not yet formally repealed its own marijuana prohibition,2 it has largely ceded control of the issue to the states.3 t Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Law and Government, Vanderbilt University Law School (robert.mikos~vanderbilt.edu). I thank Jonathan Adler, Jonathan Caulkins, Paul Edelman, Sam Kamin, Beau Kilmer, Pat Oglesby, Rosalie Pacula, Christopher Serkin, and partici- pants at the Marijuana, Federal Power, and the States Symposium at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and the Drug Law and Policy Roundtable at Vanderbilt University Law School, for helpful comments. I also thank Andrea Alexander and Alex Nourafshan for dili- gent research assistance. 1. State Medical Marijuana Laws, NCSL (Mar. 16, 2015) [hereinafter NCSL Marijuana], http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/state-medical-marijuana- laws.aspx. 2. Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a), 844(a) (2012). 3. See STAFF OF H. RULES COMMITTEE, 113TH CONG., TEXT OF HOUSE AMENDMENT TO THE SENATE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 213 14 (2014) (instructing that [n]one of the funds made available in this Act to the Department of Justice may be used . . . to prevent . . . States from implementing their own State laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana); DEP'T OF THE 719

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