Under the Controlled Substances Act, any Schedule 1 drug can be only legalized by the executive branch of the government, which means Bush will actually have to do work if he wants a safer society.

However, public opinion will be our key weapon. I'll tell ya this, most people just view marijuana as something smoked by hippies and weird people back in their day, so I would be careful on presenting positive information on weed, despite their being a great amount of good information on it. It's drug prohibition itself which fucks up the image of weed, because when its illegal, it is thrown into the categories of coke and heroin. Cannabis is VERY different from any other drugs and that must be realized. They should ban alcohol, but look what that did...it just created more crime.

However, there has never been a constitutional amendment to prohibit cannabis, like there was alcohol, so technically cannabis is de facto legal in the USA! Although law enforcement will not buy it. States however can legalize it which will bring pressure on the feds and will create more public awareness of this issue. This is a state issue and not a federal one. If more states start defying the federal government, than the President may be forced to legalize it.

Imagine a world free of prohibition. No more shootings over territory, non-inflated prices, and relief from not being arrested. Over in Holland, smoking weed is an acceptable part of society and does not create any more problems although they still have to develop a way of distribution.

Also, Jesse Ventura said that the Dutch government is seeking to ban alcohol on Queen's Day in the Netherlands because people get violent and rowdy when drunk, but when he asked a cabbie about cannabis, the cabbie said that the cannabis smokers were not a problem and there was no talk of that. Wake up to that fact!!
Why is this so hard for Americans to grasp?? Afterall, America is the land of free isn't it?