absolutely true growone, dont know why i worded it as a diagreement, i knew we were on the same page, and i love the doomsday vault idea, i should do the same
and roach your right decrim would almost be better, but again it would need to be adopted on a federal level for it to mean anything. i mean, a state decides that within its borders, its legal period, and the feds are gunna have a hard time fighting something like that. it dont matter what the topic is, i would hope that anytime a state decides they know better than the feds, they hold onto that thought and fight for it, or threaten to secede otherwise.
the problem with decrim is that when that sort of legislation is passed, it isnt on a state level, its always on a much smaller level. Look at
Colorado, who now have 3 different towns who have decrimd,
Oregon which has been decrim for over 35 years (and i assure you, growing up in Portland, i WAS still arrested for pot) and even
Philadelphia is doing what they can to stop wasting so much money on this cause. Guess what, none of the cops in any of those towns are going to recognize what their town (or state in Oregons case) voted on, because they will always have that 'its still federally illegal' card to play. It would take a federal decrim across the board for it truly to be safe, and we know that isnt happening anytime soon becuase theres no money in that.
as of yet, all decriminalization has done so far is effectively replace the '
Marijuana Tax Stamp', as in, it has only become a way to make people FEEL they are safe, even though they definitely still are not.