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Make it a state issue and see how the states deal with it separately. Hopefully, all the hippies will migrate to blue states.

Yeah, hippies. You’d be surprised at how many loggers and commercial fishermen smoke pot. And worse.

“Make it a state issue and see how the states deal with it separately.”

It is, and the states are dealing with it separately. Marijuana should not be controlled by the federal government. It should not be a Schedule I drug. That it is, and that so many people know how ridiculous that classification is, serves only to undermine the credibility of the people who want to control our lives.

I’m one who has and still is considering getting medical certification (which I can do in Michigan) for a number of ills, the main ones being chronic nausea and lack of appetite. Not sure I believe it can be helpful for chronic pain, but I’d rather not be taking up to 2400 mg of ibuprofen per day for back and neck pain.

As of December 6, recreational cannabis will be legal here. It will likely be another year before the state gets its infrastructure in place that allows for retail sales of recreational use. Apparently as of 12/6/18, I can legally grow my own. However, I have no idea how one could legally acquire seeds.

Where in the Constitution is the Federal Government empowered to ban cannibus? Before anyone answers "the Commerce clause" (which is technically the mechanism through which most federal drug regulation springs...more on that later), keep in mind our predecessors had to pass the 18th Amendment to prohibit the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages nationally...AND THEN pass the 23rd Amendment to repeal Prohibition.

The Commerce Clasue is undoubtedly one of the, if not THE, most abused and twisted elements of federal overreach. Conservatives and libertarians rightly rail against such abuse, while statists and Dems/lbs LOVE it.

Therefore, if anyone supports federal regulation of cannibus without a Constitutional Amendment, the rightful response is "Et tu, Brute?" Congratulations...you are a philosophical cousin of Nancy Pelosi, Hillary, Obama, the New Deal, the left wing of SCOTUS, Obamacare-lovers, and pretty much every two-bit left wing/Dem since the 1930s who tried to regulate away the right to keep and bear arms.

Once we have an honest admission about the legal mechanism, we can discuss the medical and social costs/benefits of cannibus, alcohol, tobacco, coffee, etc.