Wash Post/ABC: USA split in pot legalization

[Miles]

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[King]

Ah I can't wait until the oldies phase out

[Zioneer]

Ah I can't wait until the oldies phase out

Or the oldies realize that their arthritis is treated better (and more cheaply) by pot instead of expensive pills.

[DemPGH]

It's really cool to be on the left in the USA and watch so many of these taboos break down all over the place. I of course support legalizing it.

The stigma about atheism will be the next one to break down, I think, and it will be interesting to see how long that takes and whether or not the right makes any organized effort to demonize non-believers next. Of course there aren't laws per se on that, but we all know they love to have bad guys. They may just try to re-identify poor people as the bad guys.

[courts]

They may just try to re-identify poor people as the bad guys.

when did republicans stop doing that?

[DemPGH]

They may just try to re-identify poor people as the bad guys.

when did republicans stop doing that?

I mean focus on it with welfare queen talk and so on like what Reagan did (but maybe that was an '80s thing). Craft messages about it. I think they haven't done well at that lately with the 47% comments and so on, so I think repackaging that stuff would be the most likely direction for the party's "who's the enemy" messaging.

[Anti Democrat Democrat Club]

The stigma about atheism will be the next one to break down, I think, and it will be interesting to see how long that takes and whether or not the right makes any organized effort to demonize non-believers next.

[I Will Not Be Wrong]

If atheism is the next big thing, the GOP is screwed unless it knocks off the evangelicals.

[Badger]

Ah I can't wait until the oldies phase out

Isn't that exactly what marijuana supporters said 40 years ago, though?

[publicunofficial]

Ah I can't wait until the oldies phase out

Isn't that exactly what marijuana supporters said 40 years ago, though?

Waiting for it then, waiting for it now.

Doesn't mean it's not coming.

[Person Man]

Ah I can't wait until the oldies phase out

Isn't that exactly what marijuana supporters said 40 years ago, though?

Waiting for it then, waiting for it now.

Doesn't mean it's not coming.

Exactly. Have we done better now than we did then? Only the hard core libertarian and ultra liberal 10-15% supported it in 1974, now half the country does.