Pot Criminalization: Up in Smoke?

[IMaDick]

Everyone needs to mind there own goddamn business.

This.

This is where I hope we're headed. If you need medicinal marijuana, it should be available to you - no questions asked and nobody's business.

If you want to smoke some weed for recreational or other personal reasons, nobody's business.

If you can possess in personal-use quantities in your home in NY, should be okay to possess it when you're outside of your home, imo. I'd go so far as to say it's nobody business if you grow your own (perhaps within a set amount below distribution-level) and it should still be nobody else's business.

Right now, the government makes it the business of law enforcement (and, at least in NY), neither the cops nor the DAs want to be busting people for holding small amounts of weed. One step at a time, but it's slow going.

You will never get that as long as the decision is in the hands of the elected officials and the fed is allowed to over rule the states that have decided for themselves.