As an attorney, Riana Durrett could never ask a cannabis operator to break the law.
But there isn’t a better way to test the reading of the U.S. constitution that Durrett, the director of the University Nevada Las Vegas Cannabis Policy Institute, and other legal scholars suggest could be another way forward for the cannabis industry that doesn’t hinge on President Donald Trump rescheduling marijuana.
Or on federal prohibition argued before the Supreme Court for the first time in more than 20 years.
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“I’m a believer in the dormant commerce clause arguments and that interstate commerce is no more illegal than intrastate commerce,” she added, referring to the language in the Constitution governing trade between the states – and the federal government’s ability
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