Legalization campaigns are already several steps ahead in Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada, and while getting on the ballot is not a promised victory next November, polling so far implies that most of them will be victorious. And next year could also be the year the first state, and even perhaps a second legalizes it through the legislative process.
“If you look at what’s about to happen,” Kampia said, “Vermont is most likely to legalize through the legislature, and Rhode Island has a good shot, but those are the only two states in play.”
However then there are the initiative states.
“It could be that four or five initiative states legalize it, and then all of this is facing Congress in 2017,” Kampia continued. “Then there will be a vigorous debate on legalization, and then, I predict, Congress could pass the states’ rights bill in 2019.”
Kampia discusses something along the lines about this year’s Respect State Marijuana Laws Act of 2015 (HR 1940), sponsored by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), which would change the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) so that it would not apply to persons in compliance with marijuana laws in their state.
If passed this bill would not make cannabis legal everywhere—that would be up to the individual states—but would end the federal government’s position in enforcing marijuana prohibition.
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