I'm not suggesting that the federal government force these regulations. I support recreational marijuana but I also support common sense regulations.
1. restrict weed growing to people who have a medical card and live a certain distance from the nearest dispensary. They may grow up to 10 plants. Plants will be tracked to ensure compliance
2. place edibles in child proof containing
3. place cameras in medical dispensaries to ensure that they check for medical cards
4. educate underage users of weed
5. have tsa and border security now check for weed leaving the state
Yes, but I see no reason for some of your regulations.
I don't see why weed or marijuana-growing should be limited to people with medical cards. Marijuana is not such a dangerous drug that I see any reason to limit it to medical cases. In fact, it's considerably safer than some of the other drugs that remain legal for recreational use, including both alcohol and cigarettes. Weed isn't physically addictive and has no overdose potential at all. It does have certain neurological/mental risks particularly to children and people with mental health problems, and additional risks if it is smoked (like smoking anything). But why so much limitation on something that, frankly, is really pretty safe for the vast majority of people?
Cameras at pharmacies? That's just absurd. Prescription opiates kill thousands of Americans every year, and we don't put up cameras for those. Why is weed so much more of a concern? Beyond that, America is already very stringent about getting correct ID's (consequences are dire if they don't check, and often stores are still prosecuted even if they did check but the ID was fake). I don't see any reason to add to what's already there.
I also don't see any reason why border control should confiscate weed unless you are going to a place where it is illegal to have it. I think it can just have the same regulations applied to it as travelling with alcohol.
As far as what I
would like to see implemented...
I think we really need to come up with a test that can accurate measure marijuana consumption within the last few hours, like what we have for alcohol, so we can effectively enforce intoxicated driving offences. Weed is motor- and sensory-impairing, like many other drugs both recreation and prescription, and it should remain illegal to operate a car while using it. But right now, the only tests we have can't measure anything more specific than whether you'd consumed it within the last month, which doesn't hold up well in court (for good reason).
Obviously it shouldn't be sold to minors, like all other recreational drugs.
There should be basic quality control for commercial growers, like all other crop products have, to ensure no toxic agents are used on, or added to, the supply. Private growers can do what they like.
I think that's about it, really. Weed isn't a super-dangerous drug. We don't need to put it behind barbed wire and make people go through a damn security check before buying it. That's just silly.
