Nevada Pot Legalization

Nevada Pot Legalization

Nevada Pot Legalization, The Clark County Commission is now facing legal action after voting Tuesday to oppose a November ballot question involving the decriminalization of marijuana.

The Committee to Regulate and Control Marijuana announced the legal action at the Clark County Commission meeting. The organization says the county commissioners are violating state law just by talking about that ballot question, let alone voting on it.  

In the next 24 hours, the organization says the attorney general's office will hear about it.

For the last 3-and-a-half years, Neal Levine has been fighting the state of Nevada with one goal in mind.

Levine said, "Our laws are a complete failure. They do not work. Anyone who wants to smoke marijuana currently can. So, are we going to keep ignoring that and funding the activities of violent gangs and drug dealers, or are we going to be sensible about it and put some sensible safeguards on the sale of marijuana."

Levine thought his organization, the Committee to Regulate & Control Marijuana, was finally seeing some progress in its battle in the form of a ballot question.

"Question 7 is an initiative on the ballot this November that would pull marijuana out of the criminal market and put it into a tightly regulated controlled and taxed market" said Levine.

That progress hit a wall when Levine and his organization learned the Clark County Commission would discuss and vote on question 7, and whether they believed it should even be on the November ballot.

Levine, backed by dozens of supporters and armed with a lesson in Nevada state law, decided to show up at county commissioner meeting.

During the meeting, Levine told the commissioners "to continue what you are doing here today certainly flies in the face of Nevada law."

Levine continued, "The only exception for a public official on the public dime supporting or closing a ballot initiative is in a debate setting where both sides are equally represented and that most certainly wasn't that."

Now Levine will take his battle all the way to the attorney general's office, hoping voters, rather than the County Commission have the final say on whether Levine wins his battle to legalize marijuana.

The Clark County Commission's attorney says she doesn't believe the commissioners broke any law by voting on ballot question 7, and neither did any of the commissioners, but Levine says he's taken legal action against the state before in a similar case.

In fact, the state sued to have Question 7 taken off the ballot earlier this year and Levine and his organization took them to court and won.