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If you ask me, this "slow roll-out" of legal cannabis in the United States has been planned and directed entirely by big business the entire time.

• Animats 9y ago
  Maybe it's a plot to make the lower classes more passive so they don't revolt. I've been amazed to see the GOP reverse course on this.
  • adventured 9y ago
    The GOP largely reversed course because of the obvious reason: their voters have changed their minds about marijuana over the last two decades. Opinion polls among GOP voters from the early 1990s to now, tell that story. It's the same reason the GOP is gradually shifting its mindset on how to deal with opioid addiction (incarceration vs treatment, decriminalization, lessened criminalization, etc). GOP voting districts are getting hammered by it. It has become personal. It's likely everyone living in a GOP-dominated area, knows someone who is dealing with or has dealt with opioid addiction. There are now millions of opioid addicts in GOP voting districts in a given five year time span.
  • mythrwy 9y ago
    Plenty of Democrats have "reversed course" as well. I think Hillary was against legalizing the herb wasn't she? Did she ever reverse position? Politicians are just politicians for the most part. Whatever they think will get them in office.
    • Synaesthesia 9y ago
      She’s always been against legalization. Still is AFAIK.