Well, those are nice thoughts, really, and maybe my brain just sees things differently but here is my take (for what it's worth...):
I see politics as only the card table. The big money opponents will be pharmacutical vs. textile/fuel vying for the largest share of the take. To us that would mean the following. Should pharmacutical get the nod then we will see heavy regulations once again. The price of weed will climb and any related retail will be forced to withdraw. Think about it... If the pharmacutical giants gain control of marijuana they may or may not (imo they will) make it available to the public at large providing there is a medical need. They most certainly will not want the everyday Joe growing in their back yard. There would be major efforts in legislation to make sure you are punished for doing so. That's just good business. Just because you have a script for that morphine patch doesn't mean ANYBODY is EVER going to let you grow your own poppies. No, you'll get the weed that they provide and in the fashion they provide it, period. That, and with the ability to test and experiment with it openly, we may just get a hyped up Marinol with all the bennies but no high. (I know, Marinol is an olive derivitive, but you guys get what I am saying) On the other hand if textiles get the nod, then things will get interesting. Better for us for sure. Better for the world as we know it. In fact our common view (that's YOU, MP members) of the ideal world and it's use of hemp/marijuana as a multi-use renewable resource should have but one present goal: Keeping our weed out of the grip of pharmacuticals, by any means possible. I realize that sounds strange to you all since that is the exact vehicle we are using to adopt a more tolerant view of marijuana but even as we do our enemies in the gov. plot and plan their victories constantly. These guys never sleep. We may have won a battle or two of late but the war rages on. Kind of puts everyone here in a really strange spot, heh? I am worried for our fate in the hands of our government caretakers. I shoud be happy and live in the moment but that other damn shoe.... It's gonna drop at some point and PLEASE let it not be pharmacuticals. If anyone here thinks that this struggle is **, think again. Don't consider your well being. Consider government, consider money, because when it comes down to it our fate will have this attached to it $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ no matter what.