I have to say, even though I stop smoking pot a long time ago, this is one of the things I'm really glad to have been wrong about. I must have had endless discussions about whether this would actually happen in my lifetime, and I just couldn't conceive it happening. Probably because I was looking at it wrongly, and expecting it come down the federal legislative channel. Nice!
I no longer smoke either. I grew up in the Ann Arbor MI area where possession has always been a minor misdameanor. Every year Ann Arbor hosts the "Hash Bash" and people openly smoke while speakers talk about legalization etc. because of my proximity to this, I've always thought it would eventually be legalized especially in a post Clinton (I didn't inhale) country. I will not be shocked when all non violent drug offenses are merely fines and carry no jail time.