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99 Iowa L. Rev. Bull. 39 (2013-2014)
The Limits of Marijuana Legalization in the States

handle is hein.journals/iowalrb5 and id is 39 raw text is: The Limits of Marijuana Legalization in
the States
Sam Kamin*
I.  INTRODUCTION   ....................................................................................  39
II. OVERVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS ............................................... 40
III. CONTINUED TENSION BETWEEN STATE AND FEDERAL MARIJUANA
P O LICY  ..................................................................................................  4 2
A .  EMPLOYM  ENT  ................................................................................  44
B.   PROBATION  OR  PAROLE ................................................................... 45
C.   CON TRACT .....................................................................................  46
D .  BANKIN G  ......................................................................................   47
IV .  C ONCLUSION  .......................................................................................  48
I.  INTRODUCTION
Marijuana   regulation   in  the   United   States is in    a  period   of
unprecedented flux. While the federal government continues to list
marijuana as a Schedule I narcotic under the Controlled Substances Act
(CSA)-a drug whose manufacture and sale is a felony punishable by up to
life in prison-many states are starting to treat the drug quite differently.
The last twenty years have seen an increasing number of states legalize
marijuana for medical purposes-removing the criminal penalties for those
using the drug pursuant to a doctor's recommendation and setting up
regulatory regimes under which qualifying patients may purchase and
possess the drug.
This increasingly differential treatment of marijuana under state and
federal law creates significant legal uncertainty. The reason for the scare
quotes in the previous paragraph, of course, is that states cannot simply
legalize that which the federal government prohibits. While a state may
remove its own marijuana prohibition and may even create a regulatory
*   Professor and Director, Constitutional Rights and Remedies Program, University of
Denver, Sturm College of Law. B.A., Amherst College; J.D. & Ph.D., University of California,
Berkeley.
1. See21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(i)(A)-(C) (2o12).

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