National marijuana prohibition is dead and it isn’t coming back. The states are dealing with it now, as they should have been all along per the Tenth Amendment.
My take as well. States should be free to do this sort of experimentation. Vermont, for example, with single-payer (it isn't, I hear, going all that well), Colorado with pot. If it works out well enough and other states want to follow suit, so be it; if not, then that's fine too. There are still a number of dry counties down South, to cite another example, and they have every right to be.
That isn't how political activists think, though. For them the federal route offers the most power over the most people, and never mind experimentation because they know they're right. Which is precisely where a weak federal government has its advantages.
And that's a fact for better or worse.
You can't even get a majority of Republicans to oppose its legalization.
The highest concentration of opposers are in politics and Law Enforcement...who directly benefit from its illegal status.
True, and as even more of the propaganda-addled oldsters get just as dead, legalization will spread.
The states screwed up in the 30's, when they whined and cried to the Fed to do something about marijuana and gave up their 10th amendment power. And we all know, once you give the Fed power, they're not giving it back.
A stoned nation is a loser nation that Putin types will take apart piece by piece. Just give them time. Same goes for the Muslims.
A wealthy stoned nation will become enslaved Elois. Just give it time. Honest legitimate medical marijuana...OK by me. But most such programs are backdoor marijuana legalization