I’m trying to figure out the electorate and it doesn’t compute.
It is pro-pot and pro-Republican. Republican politicians are notoriously anti-pot.
Any ideas?
Any Ideas?
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I’m trying to figure out the electorate and it doesn’t compute.
It is pro-pot and pro-Republican. Republican politicians are notoriously anti-pot.
Any ideas?
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5 responses to “Any Ideas?”
Anti-government is a good explanation for both. Democrats have become the party of government – that includes the DEA.
I’m a republican and a conservative. I am not pro or con-pot. I’m pro-rule of law. The current federal law is pot is a regulated substance. It is against the law to possess, distribute or grow pot. If it was legal, my issues with you wanting to blaze one go away. Much like illegal immigration, I’m in no way opposed to immigration, it’s the “Illegal” part that is the issue. If you don’t like the legal status of pot, change it through your vote… if you don’t like the quota and type of immigrants from certain countries, change the law. For me it’s a rule of law issue, not a pot issue.
Not a fan of the pot heads. Or, teh meth.
But before legalization, there was plenty of pot out there, and still is plenty of meth.
Prohibition doesn’t make a lot of sense if you can’t deny the user the product. And if the product produces a lot of money, that will generate the criminal resources necessary to provide product. Sooner or later, somebody gets a gun.
If people self-select for stupid, I can’t see why I should attempt to stay them from their goal. Parenting, schools, church, if these are ineffective, why then attempt to sway with criminality? Tom Becker wrote a great paper on the economics of crime. Want to reduce crime? Probability of detection and severe punishment. If a dealer knew he would be executed, it might affect his decision matrix. If hundreds of dealers were being busted each day, it might affect his decision matrix. You want to eradicate a thing, do so, decisively.
Heroin, beer, PCP, oxy, bacon. Something Thomas Cranmer said. If you’re a child, learn to listen. If you’re an adult, make adult decisions.
That, is on you.
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The country is indeed trending both pro-pot and pro-Republican.
Cannabis normalization is succeeding because reformers PERSUADED the public that cannabis isn’t and and never has been as dangerous as we’ve been told.
The nationwide Republican ascendancy has been greatly assisted thanks to the progressive wing of the jackass party taking an approach that eschewed persuasion. Branding people bigots the minute you deviate from their cultural agenda doesn’t entice them to for you.
Being in such a hurry to enact their agenda has come back to burn the donkeys big time. OTOH, being patient, using persuasion, and not denigrating the opposition’s motives has led to cannabis reform success.
Nine states had cannabis reform on the ballot last week, eight passed.
We are moving the ball but there’s still more work to do. Don’t get cocky like the donks did.
And remember, love trumps hate.
Pro-small government. Or, at least, smaller.
That’s all.