When all 50 states legalize it then the federal government will have no choice but to legalize it I'm sure that's what there waiting for is for the majority of the states to legalize it if not all them were almost half way as far as some form in them states even if its just cbd oil its a step forward
Obviously legal weed in all 50 states is inevitable. It's simply a question of when. We can determine this "when" by comparing it to another civil rights struggle of our time: gay marriage. Gay marriage advocates started small with civil unions, just how we started with medical marijuana. We didn't want to give Fox News a heart attack! The first state to legalize gay marriage was Massachusetts in 2004. First states to legalize weed were Colorado and Washington, ten years later in 2014. After Massachusetts showed that society didn't cease to exist because gay people could be married, so have Colorado and Washington shown that legalized weed really isn't a big deal. Here we are, eleven years after MA legalized gay marriage, and sometime in April this year the Supreme Court will officially decide whether all 50 states have to grant the right to same-sex marriage. Will the Supreme Court be making a similar decision with marijuana in 2024? Maybe, if it's a liberal court and our society evolves on marijuana as fast as we did on gay marriage. Eleven years later and 37 states have gay marriage. Obviously marijuana won't be legal in 37 states in 2024. Unfortunately, marijuana's even more stigmatized than gay people, and that's saying something considering we live in a very homophobic country. But I'd bet 5 more states legalize it in 2016. After that, even some of the more conservative states will be looking at legal weed as a possibility. I think by the time it's fully legal in at least 10 states, the Supreme Court will be forced to step in and resolve the legal headache of something being totally legal at a state level but totally illegal at a federal level. If the Court is lagging behind on the marijuana issue, Congress (which in a decade will have fewer crusty, old Republicans and more hip millennials) will likely just make it legal. I'd say no later than 2030, no earlier than 2020. But maybe I'm being too optimistic. In any event, I'd love to be able to call the 2020s the Decade of the Stoner!
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I do believe by 2020 that probably most states will have some form of legalization even if its just the oil and we will probably be up to 12 with recreational and by 20 probably will be legal in most states as more states come to realize how much money they can make off taxes like alcohol and cigarettes that's the only reason the states are legalizing now and as they also see there are so many medicinal benefits and very few negative drawbacks compared to alcohol and cigarettes I think the federal government will just make it medical like opiates I don't know if they will ever make it recreational but I really hope they do only good things can come from it I would be happy to see all states do it on there own though what would the feds do then they wouldn't have a choice but to allow it like there doing now because they don't have the money or manpower to hit all these states now earlier when there were only a couple state it was easier for them but not now
The conversations invoked since the legislation passed in Oregon have been astounding. I'm talking about weed with people I NEVER would have thought had any interests and found out one of them even grows it. These kinds of stimulating conversations are gonna sweep living rooms, kitchens and garages across the country. Once people realize the harmless nature of the drug itself they will be more inclined to pass it federally. Its so crazy seeing the old commercials and ads produced by the anti drug campaigns. Almost nauseating.
Federally? I'm guessing once 10 states legalize which will happen by 2020 hopefully. Every state? Never, most red states view cannabis as pagan satanic hippie plants.
The dominoes are definitely falling more quickly than I imagined they would. I've always said that it's going to happen on a state-by-state basis. Where I live, in Massachusetts, there is a bill in the state legislature backed by fifteen lawmakers to legalize it. And if it fails to pass, it's going on the 2016 ballot to be voted on directly by the people. We passed decriminalization in 2008 with a ballot measure, and I'm certainly feeling optimistic about this next step.
no offense, but to call cannabis a drug is false. plants are not drugs. synthetic drugs can be made from the compounds in cannabis but it does not mean the cannabis plant itself is a drug
Because politicians developed the existing programs, and not experienced business leaders, the flaws in existing problems have created more problems than solutions which is having a negative impact on the movement to legalize in other states. For instance, in an attempt to control the industry, early programs had limits on the number of growers, limits on the number of retailers, limits on quantities and inventories, etc. leading to an imbalance of supply and demand. The politicians failed to realize the extent to which various layers of government would embroil programs in conflict and contraversy between the fed and the states and between the states and city/county governments. And of course, a huge problem in not realizing that the conflict between federal and state laws would cause the banking industry to refuse to do banking for dispensaries legal under state law and illegal under federal law causing huge sums of cash outside the banking system, with dispensaries paying taxes in cash and having their cash seized by the feds. And when cities like San Diego shutting down entry to all dispensaries, other cities and states begin to wonder the wisdom of legalization. Marijuana activists must address these failures before more states will rush in to legalize.
never they are having a hard enough time just getting it classified as a schedule 2 substance it will never be federally legal, at best decriminalized that's not to say they won't still go after people who are producing mass quantities and selling it though
By 2024, yeah i think 37 states will be legal.. it's just gonna gain momentum and continuing to outreach the reefer madness and states will be legalizing left and right to reap the benefits as it's 1000% better than the system we have now which doesnt even make weed unattainable "illegal" my ass Sent from my intergalactic spaceshiphotbox
Seeing as how they are just now trying to reclassifie it to schedule 2,there is no reason the federal government will legalize cannabis just because a certain number of states decide to do it on a state level.the same way there will be many state that do not ever and just because the federal government if and when it decides to legalize it states do. Kt have to just because the government does...took them almost a hundred yrs to do this http://www.thecannabist.co/2015/03/25/carers-act-house-senate-legalize/32143/ and all that does is put it in the category of pills and meth. So even if 20 states legalize does not Mean the gov will nor does the government legalizing change what states want...that is why I live in a legal state.