Welcome back to Higher Law, our weekly briefing on all things cannabis. I’m Cheryl Miller, reporting for Law.com from Sacramento, the hometown of some guy who just announced his retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court.
You might recall that Anthony Kennedy, once a federal appeals court judge in California, only became Ronald Reagan’s nominee for the high court after the president’s previous choice, Judge Douglas Ginsburg, withdrew amid a “clamor” over his admission of past pot-smoking.