If anyone thinks marijuana will be legalized and decriminalized they are sadly mistaken. Not anywhere in the world is Marijuana 100% legal and there is no way in our day and age that the U.S. is going to lead the way on that front. And honestly IMHO it shouldn't be legal for anything other than Medical use.
The legalization of marijuana is a totally different debate than the debate of the benefits medical marijuana has for many people.
The reasons given over the last seventy five plus years for it's prohibition as a recreational drug are still as suspect as they were
when it was told, one of the reasons to keep marijuana illegal is when black men smoke marijuana, it turns them into crazed
white women raping maniacs, and who in middle America in the fortys and fiftys wouldn't believe that?
Furthermore, the hypocrisy that exists between legal recreational drugs the government profits from, be they safe or unsafe, and the ones government profits from by demonizing and prohibiting is rather mind blowing.
While the scientific debate on marijuana continues, the scientifically proven cancer causing recreational drug continues to be legal,
and the government continues to profit off of that dangerous drug. Governments attempt to keep you safe from the dangers of tobacco amount to mandating big tobacco warn its customers of the potential risk of death when their product is properly used.
Once the NORML political action committee has the funds of big tobacco, alcohol, or big pharmaceuticals, things may change in terms of marijuanas legalization.
Until then, the hypocrisy continues.