Prohibition was a countrywide re-legalization of alcohol by constitutional amendment.
Opposite - what you just described is the END of Prohibition, which was also begun with an amendment unlike federal pot prohibition.
A few states legalizing MJ does not a prohibition make. What is created with only a few states relaxing some control, are nefarious groups who will seek to fill the demand of those users residing states which have not or will not relax code & statute.
News flash: such groups existed before any state had legalized.
Will the Fed step up or not in the foreseeable future?
"Step up" to do what exactly? Continue to exceed their Constitutional authority by meddling in intrastate commerce in pot?
“Opposite - what you just described is the END of Prohibition, which was also begun with an amendment unlike federal pot prohibition.”
Which is exactly what I didn’t mean to say when I somehow mysteriously left out the word “end” in the beginning of that freaking sentence.
So... I completely blew my argument and surrender, but am not convinced. Nor can. I wrap my arms around conceptualizing anything less than unending strife for these corporate farms. Watching billions of untaxed, unregulated, state sanctioned controlled substances being produced openly is far and removed from simple decriminalization.
I understand completely the points you are articulating and I’m not in disagreement. But I do not think the federal government is going to simply give it a pass. Nor do I think the criminal element is going to let opportunity pass them by.