Predict date of US Federal Legalization

Discussion in 'Marijuana News' started by Michael, Feb 7, 2013.

  1. When do you think federally it will be legalized?
     
  2. I'll start, october 2013
     
  3. Federal legalization? I'd say around 2025. But I think the feds will openly accept state-level legalization within the next year.
     
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  4. Somewhere between now and never. I am so fucking stoned right now.
     
  5. well i bet it will eventually be legal in all states and the feds will just forget about it but i dont think it will ever be legal on a federal level i just dont see it happening either nothings going to change or it going to just become unenforced
     
  6. I predict around 2020. It depends on who is elected to congress between now and then though.

    I think all, or at least most states will legalize before the feds do. That's how alcohol prohibition ended.
     
  7. I thought the feds just said "fuck it" and called it quits on the alcohol issue.
     
  8. The states decided it first. They all repealed prohibition of alcohol before the feds did.
     

  9. I kind of thought it was the repeal of whatever amendment that criminalized alcohol....my bad.
     
  10. as late as 2017
     

  11. It was. But the states repealed first, then the feds followed suit when it became clear that the states didn't want alcohol prohibition anymore. The feds are slow to make changes and admit wrongs. Usually the states have to lead the way first.

    That is most likely how cannabis prohibition will end.

    And even if the feds end prohibition first, the states will have to repeal it one at a time because they all have their own scheduling guidelines, and Cannabis is a schedule I controlled substance in 48 states.
     
  12. Start building a "Grass roots" campaign in your state to REPEAL the asinine drug laws not Legalize the cannabis industry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     
  13. States- More than half by 2015

    Feds- Whenever they get the stick out of there ass..
     


  14. ^^^^ what he said
     
  15. neva.

    by 2020, i assume a lot of states will be cool with it though.
     
  16. By 2020 I'm predicting. But I could see A LOT of states being legal in the next 5 years.
     
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  17. Not true. The 18th amendment was repealed in 1933. Many states continued prohibition after that. Mississippi did not repeal its state prohibition until 1966. Some counties and towns still prohibit alcohol (although no states do).

    On topic: I think we will see an incremental change at the federal level. First federal law will be changed to allow legal states to operate as they wish while still maintaining federal prohibition. Eventually federal prohibition will end altogether, but it will not be until after several incremental changes.

    If I must guess a date I would say another 10 years, so 2023.
     
  18. I would say if it doesnt happen in 10 years, it never will. We will just be stuck in this limbo stage of states allowing it and shit. Like most other countries with relaxed weed laws.
     
  19. with as many states that have jumped on the bandwagon to legalize in the last two and a half months alone I'd say the Feds have to catch up within the next 10 years. Less if more states successfully push/start legalization campaigns.

    My most optimistic prediction says within 6 years, my most pessimistic within 20.
     
  20. More states need to get on board before its changed on a federal level. A lot are starting, but we have a long way to go unfortunately. I'd guess that within the next 5 years most or all states will allow access to medical marijuana and hoping more will follow in the steps of Colorado/Washington in legalizing it for recreational use
     

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