So now funding for tests on the effectiveness of Medical Marajuana can take place. Big Pharma can buy in on it now. The production and distribution on a federal level could become like the controls placed on oxycontin and other prescription drugs. Big business will find a way to grab and control the profits. The lobbyists are lining up to go after the state politicians as well to insure that regulation will benefit them. State gets more tax money, Big Pharma gets a big piece of the pie, Politicians invest in the growers & distributors they are cutting the deals with. (just look at florida). Upside hopefully some relief will come to the sickly, Reduced sentences for possession resulting in less prison overcrowding. ( Privatized prisons won't like that). I just hope that the states or on a federal level will allow people with a medical card to raise a few plants on their own. A number of states do that now. Still a long way to go but its a move in the right general direction. I work for a employer that if any THC shows up in a Urine test I am fired and lose my pension. I would like to see my Blue Cross Blue Shield picking up the costs of a few jointsi