This is great to hear!! It seems to me the big difference between the alcohol and marijuana prohibitions is the supply-side violence for the alcohol prohibition occurred within the US (leading to the repeal of the prohibition in 13 years). The supply-side violence for the marijuana prohibition is mainly happening south of the border, and as they say "out of sight, out of mind". http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/533/mexico_medical_marijuana_bill Of course the ONDCP's legally mandated to oppose anything that might lead to legalization in the US, and the DEA has publicly sworn to do the same thing. So Congress is going to hear a lot of bs reasons why it should put pressure on the Mexican government to quash these bills. We seriously need a law change to keep the DEA and ONDCP out of business of creating social policy, they simply don't have the skills, intelligence, or empathy to be able to dictate the freedoms under which we are allowed to live.