Posted on 02/25/2015 10:15:40 AM PST by Ken H
More than two years after Coloradans voted to allow recreational marijuana use, the state’s residents continue to stand firmly behind keeping the drug legal, a new poll found.
The survey, commissioned by Quinnipiac University, found that 58 percent of Colorado voters support keeping pot legal, while only 38 percent are against it.
The result featured significant gender and age disparities. Voters ages 18 to 34 favored it overwhelmingly, 82-16 percent, while 50 percent of those ages 55 and older were against it, with only 46 percent in support.
Likewise, men supported the measure by a margin of 63-33, while women only favored it 53-44.
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“marrying children has grown in popularity too, doesn’t make it okay”
Don’t have facts at hand, but that sounds incorrect as:
a. average age of couples marrying has gotten older.
b. there is greater uniformity in law as to age of consent, protecting minors from sexual exploitation etc.
..but good points otherwise.
it was a backhanded slap at New Jersey
heh
Ah, I get it, now!
Sorry, Christie has fallen off my radar entirely, I hear his name / voice and it becomes that Charley Brown teacher drone.
Right, because we haven’t had legal booze in this country for all but a decade of our existence.
*FDR? The marijuana out there today is 20 times more potent than in the 60’s*
This country also somehow survived and flourished with EVERYTHING ELSE LEGAL until the 1920s.
You used to be able to buy morphine and syringes in the Sears Catalog for pete’s sake.
I can drink a beer that is 4 times more powerful than was allowed in my state for most of its existence, too. Guess what, society hasn’t crumbled because of barleywine either.
The grow shops do make some crazy potent stuff. 20X more potent? I doubt it. Even so, more potent means fewer tokes for the desired effect. This is a scare tactic used by drug warriors.
No, all the people from California and the NE who moved to Colorado support weed.
That’s in part because not everyone is a hardcore alcoholic, pothead, or narcotic user. It doesn’t always take a law against something to figure that perhaps it either should be used with plenty of control or avoided for one’s own benefit.
How many of the “residents” in question moved there recently just to get high, and stay that way?
Neither has redeeming social value, IMO, but I didn’t argue for changing the law. I merely made an observation on where it fits into the general social landscape of our times. But don’t let me interrupt that bong...
The only thing slowing it down is coming up with the catchy phrase or slogan that makes it the next tax panacea that was promised by the various predecessors: liquor by the drink, pari-mutuel wagering, lotteries, etc. The real hurdle is being able to tie it to that old stand-by: It's for the children!
Candy has no redeeming value. In fact, it’s a net drag on the US economy since it gives so many people diabetes. Wanna ban that too, nanny stater?
OK, I guess reading comprehension is not your strong suit so I’ll try all caps: I WASN’T ADVOCATING A LAW CHANGE!!! I typed that real slow for you, too.
“The marijuana out there today is 20 times more potent than in the 60’s”
That’s a myth, which came from comparing THC content in the strongest strains available today with the weakest strains available in the 60’s. On average, potency has increased some, but nowhere near “20 times.”
I guess knowledge of computers and comedic timing is not your strong suit either, since it doesn’t really matter how slow you type something since it all gets posted at the same time.
Regardless, many people in CO *are* trying to change the law and plain ol’ prohibitionists there and everywhere else are still peddling the same hysteric propaganda that has been proven incorrect decades ago.
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