There are rumors that Jeff Sessions is going to end the policy which has allowed pot to be legal in some states (https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/04/jeff-sessions-marijuana-policy-us-attorney-enforcement-324020)
I don't smoke pot, but I think that it should be legal
Fixed your link.
This is going to hurt in the 2018 elections. The pro-legalization crowd was a pretty solid force with libertarians in 2016, and it has been something of a rallying point for states rights activists as well. Both of those groups have a lot of GOP ties, and alienating them is not a good idea.
If someone popped up and said pot support was a larger factor in third party performance in 2016 than the shit sandwiches offered... I would not be the slightest bit surprised.
When you're able to get a slim majority of
republican voters in favor of something like legal weed and you aren't making that your ground floor as a democrat running for office
the fact you don't choke on your own tongue regularly is amazing because you're a full on moron! I mean, goddamn, I haven't been high in years, don't know anybody to get it from really, but if someone dropped a joint in my lap and said we have no lighters I'm willing to knock some of these rocks I'm knapping together until it ignites, yo. I miss weed, a nice buzz is great when you're doing shit like grinding an adze blade or playing dorfs or working a shitty job.
*Fuck over drug cartels by eliminating an easy profit source.
*While there is no gateway effect of the drug itself, the illegality makes it a much smaller step to other harder drugs than it would be to go from a legal buzz to an illegal one.
*You want to bitch about scrimping funding but aren't interested in saving huge amounts of police and prison spending in exchange for gaining a taxable revenue source with a guaranteed consumer base?
*There might even be something to the use medicinally, I don't even fucking care about that shit honestly, someone smoking pot probably won't be overdosing on opioids so I'm gonna count that as a health benefit goddammit!
*Seriously did I mention the huge support this shit has, if you told potheads they could get a do-over on the election and straight up put a pro-weed president in office this year if they came out in large enough numbers you're going to overwhelm the polling capacity of the nation, I'm pretty sure enough will come out for congressional elections if legal weed is used as bait to flip shit entirely.