Good Law | Bad Law

As more and more states move to legalize marijuana, Is federal law making pot illegal just so much smoke? Aaron Freiwald, Managing Partner of Freiwald Law and host of the weekly podcast Good Law | Bad Law, is joined by Professor Robert Mikos to discuss marijuana law and policy. A Professor of law at Vanderbilt, Robert is a leading expert on federalism and drug law, specializing in marijuana law, and is the author of the first ever casebook on the subject, entitled Marijuana Law, Policy, and Authority. In today’s episode, Aaron and Robert discuss a variety of topics relating to marijuana law, medical marijuana and the discrepancies that exist between State and Federal law on the subject. Considering there is still a federal ban on marijuana there are barriers that are imposed by the federal government that can make the issue of marijuana, both for medical and recreational use, difficult. Robert details the challenges that states (and D.C.) face as well as the legal maneuvers and loopholes that some states ha