[ellery]

Well, short of a Constitutional amendment, I don't think the feds have any business regulating intrastate drug issues regardless of what comes of various state experiments. However, I think what you've described would happen naturally -- a few states might legalize, more would decriminalize or separate marijuana from hard drugs, and most would probably stick with the status quo. Hurrah, federalism!

[Question_Assumptions]

And isn't it interesting that we can come to an agreement somewhere between the extremes?