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Originally Posted by joemomma  I think that is exactly what will happen. I think in other states law enforcement will be less excited about arresting people for something that is legal in another state, the fire will spread and it won't be long before state powers start telling the DEA to get fucked. Once several states have legalized then the fed will follow along and then the hold out states won't really have much of a choice. This will be greatly accelerated once other state governments start seeing the Oregon revenues from marijuana tax. |
so being the pessimist that i am....i don't know. i think before anyone on the federal level even considers a change (whether that means for mmj or legalization) it's gonna require at least half the states including all of the largest ones. so california , texas, new york, florida, illinois, ohio, pennsylvania; of those only cali has mmj laws.
that having been said even if things changed the DEA actually has the power to reschedule it. they can't just arbitrarily reschedule but they can submit a requestion to Human Health Services (HHS), who will then study it and recommend a course of action to the DEA. The DEA then has the right to do anything they see fit. the only thing binding the DEA is if the HHS says it should not be controlled the DEA can't control it BUT if the HHS say it should be control as a schedule V drug the DEA has the right to schedule it at any classification it wants. so they could place it right back at schedule I.