Quote Originally Posted by maik
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,


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.
Nowhere in the U.S. constitution does it say pot is illegal, nor in any Amendment to the Constitution. It's a federal law. The best thing that can be done right now, is to repeal the federal law, and leave it up to the states to decide.