I believe the best way forward with cannabis will be to make it so that federally it isn't enforced at all but it is enforced at the state level.
Rescheduling it any other way at the federal level sets a precedent for all states. Kicking it back to the states (like abortion) allows each state to do what they want with it.
Conservative states can keep it illegal and the lefty states can legalize it. Or whatever the individual states decides to do with it
Cannabis: The NEW cannabis is "SOMA" as predicted in Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD.
Cannabis sativa var. indica which is the bushy broad-leaf type more popular among indoor growers and short season outdoor growers has been grown for a very long time in locales with ancient hash-making traditions. It does tend to have a more sedative effect profile than the imported sativas of yore but it is nothing new. It's just new combinations of genetics from around the world. However I think Cannabis in general tends to wake people up to the reality around them.
Medical marijuana is legal in the very red state of Oklahoma.
For thinking people who espouse small government it's a no-brainer.
I recently had the thought that if a person living in a legal state gets busted by the Fed's for possession, a good defense would be the State was guilty of "Aiding and Abetting" . They allowed the person to break a Federal law. LoL
Sativa is for when you need to be energised, Indica is the theraputic variety, the couchlock one that makes the best CBD.
Mix cannabis shiv with lime to make hempcrete, wonderful building material, after 30 years it will set as hard as stone and last as long as stone, for thousands of years.
Grow your own and each morning juice some tops as big as a tennis ball with your juice of choice and it will organise your entire system into a harmonious one.
Cannabis can be made into a lattice as good as graphene, this will make wonderful batteries.
Otto Diesel, him of the cycle and fuel first made his engine to run on hemp oil or just about any other veggie oil, and the first Model T Fords had hemp panels that could be pushed back into shape quite easily, and were made to be powered by hemp.