This day and age, apparently it is too much to ask.

And, unless we're changing federal law to allow CA to have pot, it's not going to do anyone a whole lot of good.

I think the marijuana controversy in California is not about marijuana really but about federal control. California is the fifth largest economy in the world and so has a lot a power and the federal government - our fascist government - is really concerned with things like California creating laws for carbon emissions that have teeth and make the federal laws look as lame as they are. Also, our fascist federal government is making plans to control us in the likely event of social collapse and the feds know they may have trouble from individual states - there really and truly could be civil war in our country, I believe. In a national emergency the feds control all states, all state Guards, all state employees even. All state employees can be required to carry a weapon and will give their allegience to the federal government and if an employee resists they can be charged with treason and shot. Serious shit here. It made my stomach turn to see those goddamn Blackwater people down in New Orleans while those citizens did not even have clean water to drink they damn well had security forces. The writing is on the wall and pot as much as it means to us here is only a plant that grows natually out of the ground.
These heavily armed swat teams that bust open peoples doors with a warrents gleened from a judge - somehow (fascism!) - simply because some neighbor made a anonymous call, do not exist simple to do this preposterous job but to be in position to control us all when the shit hits the fan.