I just think about all the tax dollars that would go to Mexican cartels if, in places where it is de facto legal right now, the federal law is enforced.
The law is the law is the law, but it's up to the AG to prosecute with discretion, and I think this is a case where the better part of discretion would be to focus on hard drugs like painkillers that are destroying lives in this country.
. Problem with doing drugs is that you start with the gateway drug, and once your innocence is shattered, then you become subjected to trying others in which if not a strong willed person could very well lead to a life long addiction, and eventually a short lived life at that. No one wants their youth to have this as part of the norm, and it shouldn't be made the norm. The penalties for finding an individual growing a few plants, and using it personally should be a misdemeanor, but all other laws should remain as a deterrent to an all out epidemic that reaches the masses in great numbers. How much creativity, productivity, and education is lost in these epidemics ? Do our youth mean nothing to us ? Cartels ? Trump is strengthening the border, and that issue will be part of that process to be considered as well.