Yes, let's leave it to the States

[cthulu2016]

If a state says it is okay with their values then leave them be.

There's no reason for the federal government to impose a national ban.

[Lionessa]

1. I'm sorry but your title points out the problem. What we need is for it to be decrimilized

at the federal level. Scientifically proven, sensible, better than lots of legal sins and prescribed meds should become a right, the only reason it isn't is because of the huge budgets that the DEA, state and local police, and related prison and judicial entities et al. . .. .They are corrupt and greedy, they want that extra grant money so they can become militarized. Ready to suppress, and willing to let it all go to their egos and their pocketbooks.

Let me be clear, individually I have never been hassled by a police officer, well once, but it was raining hard and I was trying to hurry and my huge dog was running by my side, so I pretended not to hear him and he drove off. I have had some officers be very nice and handle things well when I was burgled and when I was beat up.

But as a whole it is documented very well that cost of being innocent is so high, most people are forced to plea bargain even if they are innocent. And that's just one problem, the corruption being exposed here and there, but y'know it's not just here and there. The institutions that would loose priority, budget and grant monies, etc.

States' rights for this though isn't the answer, because then it puts us in the untenable position of hypocrits when we then say that the same right between doctor and patient with regard to women (or even gay marriage) shouldn't be by states' rights.

Though states are better than nothing, I guess, it is not the answer. MMJ users should have the same civil rights with regard to their privacy with their doctors and the freedom of doctors to prescribe the best answer, as women should have with their doctors, and it should be at the federal level for both.

[cthulu2016]

2. The OP is wry, not a full-fledged policy proposal

Of course I would be delighted if the federal government somehow negated all state anti-pot laws, but that is not on the horizon.

But it would be a good start to take the reasoning applied to marriage equality and apply it to pot.

No federal ban is a good place to start.

[Lionessa]

3. Again, I disagree, the hypocrisy would be crippling, imo, and it isn't a good start at all for

marriage equality at all when at least 30 states have banned the possibility. It needs to be a civil right at the federal level.



States is simply not where this belongs, nor is mmj only, it needs to be decriminalized on the federal level.

[DCKit]

4. We can't handle another northern migration.

While there's plenty of vacant housing, it would require an alternative economy to accommodate everyone, and we're not equipped... yet.