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Florida poll: Most back legal marijuana
Politico ^ | 7/28/14 | Jonathan Topaz

Posted on 07/28/2014 4:56:49 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

A majority of Florida voters support legalization of recreational marijuana, a new poll says. According to a Quinnipiac University poll released Monday, 55 percent of Florida voters back legal possession of small amounts of recreational pot, compared with 41 percent who oppose it.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: cannabis; dope; fl; florida; marijuana; pot; theworldisending; wod
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Florida media is rapturous over this poll.

Haven't heard ANYTHING about the same organization's poll about Obama in Florida. Nope, the Florida media stays far, far away from negative news about their man child hero.

1 posted on 07/28/2014 4:56:49 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Exactly what the left wants, a drugged and even more dumbed-down populace which is highly malleable to the machinations of a corrupt, fascistic government.


2 posted on 07/28/2014 5:00:23 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

An army of stumblebums and apathetic stoners is no army at all.

But to some, personal initiative is the biggest threat they can imagine. They may be right.


3 posted on 07/28/2014 5:05:47 AM PDT by alloysteel (Most people become who they promised they would never be.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

America is in decline. This is part of that decline.


4 posted on 07/28/2014 5:06:59 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: samtheman

Funny, America was ascending just fine during the days when there were no pot laws.


5 posted on 07/28/2014 5:08:25 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: SoFloFreeper

They shouldn’t be all amendments in Florida need 60 pct


6 posted on 07/28/2014 5:08:30 AM PDT by italianquaker
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To: dirtboy

But we had a totally different culture back then. People actually wanted to grow up and be responsible adults. Kids couldn’t wait. Now everybody (not quite everybody) wants to be a perpetual frat boy, rock musician, adolescent. It used to be respectable to be sane.


7 posted on 07/28/2014 5:16:14 AM PDT by all the best
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To: SoFloFreeper

The world and the nation are crashing around them, but dammit, FL voters have their priorities. Reality be damned.. we want our POT!


8 posted on 07/28/2014 5:20:18 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If it doesn't include border security, it isn't "reform." It's called "amnesty.")
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To: dirtboy

“Funny, America was ascending just fine during the days when there were no pot laws.”

During that time, stoners were not part of a political movement that attached itself for support to the people who went out and busted their a@#es for survival. If you didn’t work, you didn’t eat and the only intellectuals were those who went out and made discoveries and innovated through hard intellectual exertion. (If anyone tried to lay claim to the results of anyone else’s efforts, they were not met with hospitality.)

IMHO


9 posted on 07/28/2014 5:21:56 AM PDT by ripley
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To: SoFloFreeper

Here’s the deal. I would hire a doper, and I don’t want a doper flying my plane or operating on my mom or representing my cousin in court.

That said, I have had it up to here with police frittering away their time with a “safe” arrest of some idiot high school student for pot, ruining his life and making the cop’s life cushy because he gets credit for an arrest without taking ay risks arresting a legitimate bad guy, like a batterer or a murderer or a child molester.

I feel relatively safe from attacks by dopers.


10 posted on 07/28/2014 5:22:43 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: JulieRNR21; kinganamort; katherineisgreat; floriduh voter; summer; Goldwater Girl; windchime; ...

Florida Freeper


11 posted on 07/28/2014 5:23:38 AM PDT by Joe Brower (The "American People" are no longer capable of self-governance.)
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To: yldstrk

I mean I wouldn’t hire a doper


12 posted on 07/28/2014 5:24:33 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: dirtboy

It’s not the laws I’m referring to, it’s the level of pot use.

The decline isn’t the legalization per se, it’s the desire on the part of so many people to use a substance that makes them stupider.

We are entering a Brave New World, one that does not include an overly-informed electorate.


13 posted on 07/28/2014 5:25:01 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: all the best
It used to be respectable to be sane.

Yup.

14 posted on 07/28/2014 5:26:12 AM PDT by samtheman
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The decline isn’t the legalization per se, it’s the desire on the part of so many people to use a substance that makes them stupider.

Not to defend pot heads, but hasn't this been so forever with alcoholics?

15 posted on 07/28/2014 5:41:10 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: SoFloFreeper

There’s a slim possibility that the stupidest and least informed among us will now totally lose the incentive to vote at all.


16 posted on 07/28/2014 5:52:28 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
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To: Alas Babylon!

1+1=2 (not 1)

Also, pot is much more beguiling to the young than alcohol is... And much, much more devastating.

Pot murders learning.


17 posted on 07/28/2014 5:56:59 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: SoFloFreeper

There is a very good reason to legalize drugs. It has to do with police using hand grenades to blow up sleeping babies in cribs. That is what the war on drugs has turned us into. So uninformed “conservatives” can feel safe while being less safe.


18 posted on 07/28/2014 6:00:42 AM PDT by SpeakerToAnimals (I hope to earn a name in battle)
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To: ScottinVA
IMO, it is very important to end the failed War on Drugs, the birthplace of no-knock, SWAT team invasions of citizen's homes & the increased militancy of the local, state, & Federal police.

I'd like to see the billions of dollars wasted on creating a police state either returned to the taxpayers or spent in better ways.

I'd like to see the drug cartels & the drug dealers lose their source of income & their motivation to murder for profit.

I'd like to see people with real drug & alcohol problems get real help from real health professionals who are not subsidized by the government to perpetuate addiction & abuse; & leave responsible citizens to their privacy.

Do YOU think the government has the right to dictate what we may or may not consume?

19 posted on 07/28/2014 6:01:51 AM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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>> a new poll says. According to a Quinnipiac University poll

Aha, from a reliably objective operation...


20 posted on 07/28/2014 6:04:05 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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