Discussion for article #231343
Good luck getting federal approval.
Colorado and Washington are providing a great service to the nation with their individual state effort to provide a laboratory experiment with ending prohibition of the substance; rather than the he said-she said, innuendo, and personally prejudiced opinions re: weed. This was an original reason for the federal system and has proven its value. Individual states were able to blaze the trail on such issues as woman suffrage, direct election of US Senators and many other basic reforms before accepting the changes nationwide. The idea of including state level study of medical effects is a natural and valuable extension.