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Uhm, yes it does. It may take time, but in most societies, that is what eventually happens. Only corruption and religious or political zealotry slows down the

• tptacek 15y ago
  Corruption and religious zealotry aren't what's preventing legalization of weed. The majority of the country doesn't support it yet. The attitude of legalization advocates (I support legalization) that anyone who disagrees with them must be corrupt or in the thrall of some megachurch preacher harms the movement to legalize. The recent California initiative is a good example of this. Rather than respecting people's reservations about legalization and finding the baby-step measure that would do the most good (e.g. keep the largest number of people out of prison or at least spare them career-destroying criminal records), California legalizers instead proposed a wish list policy that voters rejected. There's a parallel in here somewhere with copyright legislation; it doesn't help that copyright reform advocates on the ground (ie, not Lawrence Lessig) are schizophrenic about the issue, sentimentalizing a position that reduces to virtual abolition of copyright while at the same time barking at people about GPL and working in jobs that more or less depend on copyright themselves.