If you know about the US Constitution (and have read it), and the US's part as a member of the international community, the following is already known to you

Currently, the way the US Constitution is written, marijuana CANNOT be made legal, and the US is bound by the Constitution to KEEP marijuana illegal.

It would take a Constitutional amendment, at the present time, to make marijuana legal.

For the same reason that it is illegal, the US is required to maintain some sort of punishment even if decriminalized.

Manufacture and distribution, CANNOT be decriminalized, under the Constitution, while in the US, possession is able to be decriminalized.

Also,
Quote Originally Posted by Tea Party
It will become legal when smokers (of whatever age) start presenting themselves in a more positive mature light...like the BC3...
I'm not going to slam Emery, but what he's doing now is hardly "positive".

I WISH that marijuana was legal, starting yesterday. In the meanwhile, I'm hiding.