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The elephant in the room is that right wing politics intersects with a certain group of people that will never ever approve liberalization of cannabis (or any d
by TrackerFF 4y ago
The elephant in the room is that right wing politics intersects with a certain group of people that will never ever approve liberalization of cannabis (or any drug for that matter), and will lobby hard against it.
This is not only the case for USA - but something you see in other countries.
Maybe something more specific to the US, would be the people and corporations that benefit from keeping cannabis illegal, and thus lobby equally hard against it.
Sometimes market liberalization and conservative thinking does not go hand in hand.
- killdozer 4y ago`Sometimes market liberalization and conservative thinking does not go hand in hand. ` I would say it never has, but that the market liberalization and social conservative wings of the larger conservative party had an uneasy truce and their ultimate goals were always in conflict. Looking at the current conservative movement in the US and how they're pushing back against capital for being "too woke" (whatever that means) it's clear (at least to me) that the market liberalization wing lost a lot of power and doesn't seem to have too much pull anymore.