Maybe. The US would have to first begin to feel actual shame about colonization and slavery though, which hasn’t really begun in earnest.

I don’t know if the US has the capacity for feeling the weight of its true guilt.

well except all the nazis that were brought directly back into:

• Official posts within the federal government and its ministerial cabinets,
• into the upper judiciary and magistrates,
• into local governance
• into universities as faculty and professors,
• elevated and hired into immense wealth in industry and finance, or just kept where they already were in industry and finance
• hired into forming the core of West German intelligence and secret police under the OSS/CIA, who made extensive use of their networks of executioners and collaborators to prop up US-backed dictatorships and cartels to use as anti-communist stay-behind guerilla terrorists by the CIA and NATO (and brought into the CIA and FBI themselves, and into MI6 and Mossad)
• to write western history books at the behest and with support of the US Army and OSS/CIA to sanitize themselves,
• all those hired into NATO, into the EU,
• into positions of power in West Germany (and all the NATO countries once gladio had purged the communists) in such saturation and such impunity that it caused the formation of left wing militant groups that would assassinate and kidnap them.

but other than all of that though!

(And that’s not even mentioning the Nazis and collaborators which made up the origins of Radio Free Europe/Liberty, the “Victims of Communism Foundation” which grew out of the fascist-filled anti-Soviet “Captive Nations Lobby” headed by OUN-B Nazis from Ukraine, and all the Operation Aerodynamic, Operation Paperclip, Operation Sunrise, Operation Beladonna, Operation Lynx, etc etc.)

eighty years later, in Germany is still trying to live down their shame

Yet, it seems many Germans are prepared to go down that same road with the AfD.

As an addition to this I firmly believe medical marijuana is a phase.

Now I’ve made people angry here’s the nuance.

CBD/THC combinations certainly have a role in some patients with chronic pain, especially where it’s use can avoid or reduce the use of opioids.

There are clear specific users such as intractable epilepsy where it is clearly the best treatment. It is effective for glaucoma but there are better treatments available.

I’m highly suspicious of marijuana having any role in mental health and there are, in my opinion, no convincing studies published showing that it is useful at all despite the fact that large studies have been done and presumably file-drawed.

The idea that smoking is an appropriate delivery method for a medication when other methods are available is insane. Very few things are as bad as tobacco smoke but inhaling smoke is bad for you.

My prediction is that in 20 years we will have cannabis derivatives in capsules that fulfil the specific purposes and the idea that any doctor prescribed marijuana to smoke will seem insane to younger doctors.