US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana

Weed being illegal on a federal level has had some interesting effects. Because of these laws, all legal weed has to be grown, processed, and retailed within a single state. So much industry and local employment has been created by the legal barriers in place.

It’s probably still a net positive to release the federal restriction, but I hope all these small/mid sized businesses don’t get gulped up by big tobacco or other mega corps

Being gulped up big corporations is good. They will much more efficiently serve the market. SMBs are notoriously unproductive.

Though maybe you want your drug dealers to be unproductive, for society's sake! I may take this back...

Can't say I've ever felt that massive corps and the people that work there are super productive. In many instances they seem less productive than government.

If the small companies were productive they'd be big companies.