Stephan:   This is the latest in the Marijuana trend. Obama broke his campaign pledge on Marijuana by creating the Federal prosecution effort against medical Marijuana. Now he is feeling the push back and it may cost him Colorado and, possibly, the election. He used Federal powers to trump the state level movement toward regularizing and legalizing. If that were to happen the Marijuana industry could do for Mendocino what vinoculture did for Nappa. Medical marijuana could then be tuned in specialized ways based on research to be useful as a palliative and treatment. Instead what Obama has produced is confusion, and a partial return to the violent illegal market of the past. If propositions in California, Oregon, and Washington pass, however, as well as this one in Colorado, the entire West coast of the United States will have lifted state prohibition; a direct challenge to Federal prohibition, backed by votes. Marijuana will mirror alcohol. States have been dry or wet over alcohol for decades. In open states it will allow a safe, regulated, and taxed Marijuana industry to arise producing thousands of jobs, and millions in tax revenues which will, in turn, finance better schools, healthcare and infrastructure rehab. Just as with alcohol wet states will prosper and dry wither.