The Fourth Circuit was skeptical Tuesday that a Maryland regulation giving priority to Maryland college attendees for marijuana retail licenses unconstitutionally discriminates against out-of-staters.
Maryland’s “social equity” program for licenses is based on the state’s “public policy to engage people who have been down and out and disproportionately suffered with respect to the drug wars,” Judge Paul V. Niemeyer said at the oral argument. “It does not restrict social equity to residents of Maryland or elsewhere.”
To violate the US Constitution’s dormant commerce clause, “there doesn’t have to be a full bar to out-of state,” said Jeffrey M. Jensen, an …
The Fourth Circuit was skeptical Tuesday that a Maryland regulation giving priority to Maryland college attendees for marijuana retail licenses unconstitutionally discriminates against out-of-staters. Read More
