Will The Presidency Lift Federal Prohibition?

spoadalive420 said:

Sorry sleepy but you can't get americas economy out of the dump very quickly. Too much cooking of the books, so much fake money. Houses are bought and sold electronically. I think that legalization would put a good for a while and then fase out again, maybe enough stupid people, which normally would not obtain MJ would get it and do stupid shit and blame it on MJ. Not the Human F-ing Defect. And what if that F-ers stupidy affects you? I say keep it in the dark. Hell it generates tons of sales tax revenue already. Plus all of the other crap you gotta buy at Wal-mart So people don't point and laugh and make comments, when your checking out grow bulbs and timers and nutrients, Flower pots, a spray bottle, maybe an odor fan. STOP BEING STUPID PEOPLE! Vermont Tax Base: $15.86 made off this. Then Electricity and the taxes you pay for them through service and misc charges. Plus they tax the Income of Manufacturer, and then Wal-Marts, and if It was imported , well you know thats some more tax. So being the way it is now, Money is made People. Its not how its made thats the problem, I think it is more how its spent and stolen. Human Beings are too easily currupted.

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zoink29 said:

ull always be able to grow ur own shit or buy from some dude down the street...they cant take it away from us no matter how much money they throw at the "problem"

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CrackerJax said:

Yah, I could have gotten used to her on TV every night.... "it puts the lotion in its hand"


out.

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Kant said:

As much as I would love to see it legalized, I honestly don't think it's going to happen in the near future.

I doubt that obama is going to legalized it. If he ever wants to get anything done as president he's not going to until late in his second term(assuming he gets reelected). Even then he doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would unilaterally do something, especially something he's not in favor of doing.

If anything is going to happen is going to have to be through congress. but congress is really slow to change and when republicans get back in power (they will eventually) all the progress we've made will be rolled back. It seems to happen every time. Not necessarily republicans rolling back the progress but progress being rolled back in general. however now it seems like democrats are all that eager to roll things back.

As for the legislation in cali, I think it's a wonderful thing and an important step. However I know it won't last. The reason mmj laws have not been federally overruled by the courts is because they say that given these medical conditions and a doctors recommendation we're simply not going to prosecute you. It's more side stepping federal law, not directly opposing. The legislation in cali would directly violate federal law so it won't stand in court. This is all assumes that it passes.

Even if some states are ready for legalization there's a large group of states that aren't ready for legalization. so that's way i don't think it's going to happen soon. I would say that it's still 15+ years away, but that's my optimistic guess.

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