I live in Colorado, so you can&#x27;t fool me with the &quot;marijuana is legalized&quot; thing. The Feds still regard marijuana as something that only Satan himself would touch, so marijuana businesses can&#x27;t officially use banks, and there&#x27;s a lot of other fallout. You certainly can&#x27;t transport it very far. State line crossings are a big, big deal. About the best you can say is, &quot;it&#x27;s less illegal&quot;.<p>The US only ducks out on treaties that require it to spend less on military&#x2F;defence stuff, in all reality. Unfortunately, really, really draconian copyright laws align pretty nicely with deep state issues: you have to inspect packets to decide whether a stream of bytes violates some &quot;IP&quot; or other, which gives a damn good excuse to penalize encryption, and allow even less oversight on search and seizure. Also, let&#x27;s face it, it&#x27;s really really easy to violate copyright even if none of us really minds. Draconian copyright gives yet another law to selectively apply to someone you don&#x27;t like, who exhibits contempt of cop, or whatever. If the US accepts the TPP, all of the excuses will be &quot;we can&#x27;t break International Law&quot; or &quot;We&#x27;d loose out in trading negotiations&quot; or &quot;what can we do our hands are tied by treaty&quot; for any modification of copyright law whatsoever.