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Support for marijuana legalization hits all-time high
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chri5t said:
Tell that to cancer and leukemia patients. Over in Aus it's illegal and not even allowed for medicinal use. I don't want drunk or stoned people on the road.... People in general are morons and so irresponsible even though they are adults and thus banning is sometimes the only remedy. Although, hmmm it's a tough one.
That said a new nasal or mouth spray is currently under trial which is a derivative of the Sativa species and is titled something like Sativera iirc.
anyhow....
Shalashaska161
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Raising 10% in 4 years is pretty surprising. Wonder what caused such a huge jump?
LeonSKennedy90
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Tesseract said:
You ARE the objective. Now would you kindly remain blissfully unaware to this fact?
edit: Also, I'm in agreement with the earlier post. Weed was this great thing I did back when I was a bit younger, then I just...grew out of it.
Cosmo Clock 21
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semiconscious
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i understood everything col. campbell said in metal gear solid 2 - thanks to marijuana...
Grinchy
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That graph is going all the way to the Supreme Court! I've given up on the Federal Govt deciding that marijuana is no longer an illegal substance with no medical properties. I remember thinking things were going to change 10 years ago. Nothing has changed, and I'm going to stop believing that it will.
You fucking criminal scum. You should be locked up with rapists.
Draft said:
You fucking criminal scum. You should be locked up with rapists.
ProfessorLobo
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Since it's over 50% and this is a democracy that means it'll be legalized immediately right?
speculawyer
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The exact same effect guarantees gay marriage eventually.Chichikov said:
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Deleted member 80556
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I think I'm lost in this thread. I dunno why.
That's a good question, I don't know the answer.Kenak said:
But looking at historical data, and seeing that support has been growing in all age group, I'd say that the data is consistent with the notion that people don't change their mind about the issue later in life (though I would admit, it was hard to find perfect data on the issue).
Indeed.speculawyer said:
The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward stoned butt-sex.
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It's inevitable.
I do not know and I'm not sure if anyone can say. What I do know is that when it is eventually legalized, it will be a poster child for propaganda turning public opinion against a (mostly) harmless substance.Cooter said:
If a progressive move for marijuana legalization goes very badly, I think it could set things back far more than a couple decades.Chichikov said:
EDIT: Kinda missed the part where you said 'easy'. Whatever, more emphasis!
Karma Kramer
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How could legalization be worse than what is currently going on...
charlequin
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Kenak said:
Much like their positions on gay marriage, people form their opinion on marijuana legalization at a young age and basically never change it. With both issues there's a steady upward trend towards approval overall while each individual cohort stays almost perfectly steady as they get older.
Cooter said:
It already means quite a bit. Decriminalization and medicinal laws keep getting passed all over the country. It's going to take a very high overall percentage of approval (70+%) to actually achieve full legalization because of a host of demographic issues, but the smaller effects are already showing up.
I see where you're coming from and I definitely agree to an extent, but I am still skeptical (though I agree 100% in terms of gay marriage). The teenage - low/mid twenty years are pretty heavy on marijuana culture. It's a lot more open and encouraged at this age. As people get older, leave college, and start to focus more on career and family, marijuana plays a much less prominent role in their lives. Wouldn't that alone cause some to alter their views on it? From being something they enjoy to something less career/family minded individuals partake in?charlequin said:
Karma Kramer
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The reason why this is happening is because of the internet. Plain and simple. I have a lot of hope for our generation because bullshit aint flying when you are seconds away from fact checking with google on your mobile phone.
I disagree.charlequin said:
The political map align perfectly for that -
Conservatives hate regulations and the government, liberals loves their ganja.
Plus it will save money, everyone likes that.
Sure there are reactionary forces fighting against it, namely the DEA and the prison lobby, but even local law enforcement is slowly moving toward supporting legalization.
Not to mention that with single issue politics you don't even need a majority to affect major change, they just need more people than the gap between the two parties.
Kenak said:
I doubt it since I think most people's reasons for legalizing weed go beyond is weed good/bad. The biggest reason why I want to legalize it is to save money on police, prison, and legal fees; reduce drug crime and severely wound the drug cartels; and increase govt tax revenue through weed taxes and an increase of jobs and profits.
I don't think you'll change your opinion about that as you get older. Will you change your opinion about whether smoking weed is a good idea? Sure, but that isnt the end all be all of the legalize weed debate
Mr.Swag said:
Someone is high right now.
AbsoluteZero said:
That, and the Senate. Any legalization would have to pass the senate, and most of the support for legalization comes from a few of the more populated states and regions. The majority of states still very much oppose legalization, meaning anything will stall in the senate in the near future (like everything else always does).
I would love to be wrong and see pot legalized relatively soon, but I don't see it happening for another couple decades.
charlequin
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Kenak said:
Nah, it doesn't tend work out this way. People are definitely more likely to be exposed to marijuana use at a young age (in terms of trying it or having friends who use it frequently) but in practice most people tend to make a decision how they feel about that exposure and then stick to it.
The idea that people get more conservative as they get older is pretty inaccurate in general, actually. Statistically, people tend to be less accepting of new ideas as they get older, but their party affiliation and positions on individual issues tend to be informed by their experiences at the time they become politically active and remain fairly steady from then on. That looks a lot like "young people are liberal, old people are conservative" when you have a time period with fairly steady leftward movement on domestic issues but it's not causatively the same.
I'm also fairly confident that especially now, people are much more likely to dial down but not eliminate their use as they get older (much as most people do with alcohol) rather than eliminate it entirely.
Kenak said:
I really can't answer that. I'd like to say yes, but since I have absolutely no data to back it up, but I can imagine that the majority of people who smoke weed and want it legal would have thought about the reasons why it should be legal.
I'd imagine that there is more ignorance on the keep it illegal side than the legal one simply due to the legal people having a reason to research the positives of making it legal
ProfessorLobo
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Kenak said:
I was being sarcastic. It won't change until corporations, especially big Pharma, demands it. Although I suppose that's directly linked to its approval by the populace.
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