No change in marijuana laws coming, White House says

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158. Intriguing thought, but I don't think so.

I believe there is a particular process that has to be followed for a constitutional amendment, which starts with it being passed by both houses of Congress. Then the amendment has to be ratified by a certain number of states.

For one thing, the exact text of the amendment would have to be agreed on. Even though several states have some sort of MMJ law, the laws are not exactly the same.

Also, a constitutional amendment really isn't required for MMJ and I'm not sure it is appropriate, because MMJ is a more complicated artifact than what would make a great constitutional amendment: that a person can't be thrown in jail for growing ANY plant as long as it is only for their own personal consumption (but allowing the gov't to stipulate that certain substances can't be given to children because of known toxicity). Now, to me that is where we probably should go, but that's a rather different direction than MMJ. MMJ would still be needed for people who aren't capable of growing their own but need it medically anyway. Then there is the question of legalizing commercial sales for recreational use.

All that said, if 2/3 of the states legalized MMJ, one would surely hope that we could vote out enough of the drug war profiteers and supporters to get some action at the federal level.

(Thanks for the compliment. Sorry I am responding so late; I probably went offline shortly after that post.)