Huge majority of Americans support legalization

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THIS week’s Economist-YouGov poll contains some exciting news for devotees of the weed. A huge majority of Americans, more than two to one once don’t knows have been excluded, support the legalisation and taxation of marijuana. Even without excluding the don’t knows, a clear majority favours treating the drug equivalently to tobacco and alcohol.

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If our poll is right, then it can only be a matter of time before laws start to change, at least in the more liberal states.

http://www.economist.com/node/18118857?story_id=18118857&fsrc=rss
 
so what happened in the california recent vote ?

could it possibly have been rigged then ?
 
I don't think it was rigged, I read there were even some MMJ dispensary owners/operators/customers that voted against it for some reason or another...
 
webbykevin said:
so what happened in the california recent vote ?

could it possibly have been rigged then ?
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The voting electorate is skewed towards old people compared to the general population, especially in non presidential election years.
 
CA has too many growers making money. We need to find a state demographic that doesn't grow much but is lenient towards growers. I say Washington or Oregon are more likely to legalize first.
 
i live in socal, and as i posted in politics:

the marijuana legalization wasn't really legalization iirc. it was a "it's still illegal, but sometimes it's not" bill. it was terrible and it's great news that it was shot down.
 
KamMoye said:
i live in socal, and as i posted in politics:

the marijuana legalization wasn't really legalization iirc. it was a "it's still illegal, but sometimes it's not" bill. it was terrible and it's great news that it was shot down.
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^^THIS.

We would all be screwed if that bill had passed. They say that we voted not to legalize weed. If that was all there was to it I am confident it would have been voted for by the majority. We are lucky that enough people read and understood the meaning of the bill not to vote for it.
 
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