This is a great first step in the right direction. Instead of wasting billions a year on the failed War on Drugs, let's the put the money to some actual good use, like paying off the national debt.

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next stop: studies. Coming up: legalization and taxation


what do yall say, no less than a year no more than 5?

I'd be very surprised if marijuana were made legal in less than 5 years. 10 years minimum before it's legal, if ever.

I personally think we should allow people to kill themselves with as many drugs they want.

Give it to them for free!!

Survival of the fittest those who wish to smoke marijuana all day and move to differant drugs are the least productive in society. Let them do enough drugs to kill themselves is my opinion.

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idk about that, its coming up for vote in cali again. if this new policy is any indication, obama will respect the states choice on the issue. if that happens, cali will make an obscene amount of money off pot, helping it pull itself out of the shitter. others would certainly be impressed, starting a domino effect in many of the medical states, and getting alot of the others to start the process.
least thats the way i see it going down.

Yea, but the majority of Americans still wish for it to be legalized. That majority is slowly eroding away, but at this rate it'll be some 2 decades before they're a minority...

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huh? everything i've seen says its growing. its not a majority yet, rather close (like 46 % nationwide last i saw, and somewhere over 50 in cali, but thats just cali.)

Wait, are you talking strictly about medical marijuana, or total legalization? I can see medical marijuana making some headway, but that's a tiny step in the fight to getting it completely legalized.

There are just too many nanny-state groups that are against it. They are relatively quiet for the moment, but any major steps towards legalization will bring them out in full force, with their quavering, shrill cries of "WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN??!!" Law enforcement stands to loose a lot of jobs, so they'll bring out the scary statistics, and point to those crazy dope fiends and the crimes they commit. I'm sure the big pharmas will have something to say about it as well, because they can't profit from marijuana. That's just some of the oposition, off the top of my head.

I was going off this:

Who Supports Marijuana Legalization?

It's from 2005, but you can see from the graphs they give, it took about 25 years for support for legalization to increase only 11 points (up to 36%).

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It's about time. You can't have the Federal Government stepping on the rights of States.

Nope I say 10 to 15 years before the federal government actually legalizes marijuana & only that after years upon years of study by the FDA. There are currently tons of people in jails over the use & sale of marijuana. I can see the law suits flying if it were legalized & these people whom have spent years in prison over nothing more than marijuana. There is still much paranoia over the use of marijuana in this country--brought on by nothing more than propoganda--that has been going on for many decades.

Now guess who are the biggest lobbyists in Washington D.C against the legalization of Marijuana. It may surprise you! It's the phamacutical companies--LOL. Think of the money they would lose--over an organic plant that is beneficial to people with certain medical conditions that they can grow in their back yards!

fully legal in some states, medical in others. i predict the ones with medical now will go full legal, and the ones without will start the medical and eventually after a period of time become full legal. just saying we'll have our first one in 1-5 years (california).

law enforcement won't lose that many, cops are cops, they don't deal THAT much with pot. the dea isn't THAT big, and theres still meth, heroine, x, acid, crack etc to fuck with. besides, if its legal youll need more batf + m agents to handle the new work load.

Agreed, I applaud this.

What law enforcement do you mean? Are you talking about local cops or about the DEA (or something else)?

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