Reply #7: I'd expect it'll be relatively soon... [View All]

I think that the country is gradually coming to realize the inherent absurdity of outlawing pot (though my perception of this could be off, since I live in the Bay Area)... Once politicians come to realize that the people don't favor anti-pot laws anymore (and that it's not political suicide to be soft on this particular crime) they'll fall over themselves to legalize marijuana. I predict that when the end comes it'll be astonishingly rapid. I don't know if it'll be before 2010, but I tenatively predict that it'll be within 20 years. Of course this prediction is based on the common sense of the body politic at large, so I may be proven spectacularly wrong...