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[World Traveler]

[IPayInCash]

Republicans compromising their morals, this is how desperate they are to regain voters and appeal to them. Theyre a little late for the flipflopping. I dont see voters that left their party going back any timesoon.

[Deja]

I don't see "potters" as being voters, so this can hardly count as way to get votes :d

[TheUrbanMyth]

[northway]

[caniff]

[atwood]

McCain can be reasonable on some issues. And it's not that he's for legalization, it;s that he recognizes the American people are for it, foir a variety of reasons.

He said basically the same thing about Obamacare, that by re-electing Obama Americans showed they favored it and the Republican should recognize that and quit fighting it.

[Captain Corea]

[sirius black]

Pot will become legal, not because the government realizes its stupid to outlaw it but for one reason only: money.

States will do what advocates have always recommended for them to do, legalize it so it can be taxed. states and municipalities are desperate for new sources of revenue. They can't keep raising personal taxes without a backlash. So, they will do this. Money (greed) is the driving force for some social changes. NYC major Bloomberg was for gay marriage simply because gays as a collective have a lot of buying power and they would come to NYC to get married and while there spend money.

I don't know if McCain's motivation is to get voters to his side of the aisle but state governments will do it for money and the Obama administration has been slowing down its enforcing of the law when states are legalizing medicinal pot.

[Ya-ta Boy]

Here's breath of fresh air, so to speak:

Support For Legalizing Marijuana Grows To Highest Point Ever In Gallup Poll

For the first time, more than half of Americans think that marijuana usage should be made legal, according to a Gallup poll released Tuesday.

Fifty-eight percent of Americans now back legalizing marijuana. That represents an 8-point increase from the previous record of 50 percent in 2011, and a 10-point increase from November 2012, just after Colorado and Washington voted for legalization.

"With Americans' support for legalization quadrupling since 1969, and localities on the East Coast such as Portland, Maine, considering a symbolic referendum to legalize marijuana, it is clear that interest in this drug and these issues will remain elevated in the foreseeable future," wrote Art Swift, Gallup's managing editor.

Much of the new support for legalization comes among independent voters, 62 percent of whom now support it, up from just 50 percent last November. Majorities of all age groups up to age 64 also support legalization, including two-thirds of those from 18 to 29.

Other surveys have found rapidly increasing support for legalizing marijuana use. A Pew Research poll released in March found a majority supporting legalization for the first time.

The Gallup poll surveyed 1,028 Americans by phone between Oct. 3 and Oct. 6.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/22/legal-marijuana-poll_n_4143995.html

The other day I read an article entitled something like 'the de Tocqueville
Factor' about why same sex marriage spread so quickly once its acceptance reached the tipping point. The main idea was that once something reaches a certain point of popularity in a democracy, the force of public opinion takes over. There's been more work done since his day, but I think the old boy might have been on to something 180 years ago.

Now we just need VeeP Joe to spill the beans on administrative plans to hurry things along.

[Ya-ta Boy]

Just to add a few numbers:

To be specific, 65% of Democrats and 62% of indies support legalization, as compared to 35% of Republicans. Even more predictably, there is an inverse relationship between support for legalization and age: 67% of under-30s and 62% of those 30-50 are there; and even a solid majority (56-40) of folks 50-64 have no problem with street-legal wacky tobacky. Only seniors oppose legalization, but even they do so by a narrow 53-45 margin.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/

Kevin Drum thinks by 2020...
There's a lot of noise in polls like this, and we might see a bit of regression to the mean in the next few years. And Mark Kleiman offers a few other cautionary notes here. So 2016 is hardly a sure thing. But 2020? That seems like a pretty safe bet in most of the country. By coincidence, this was my horseback guess when I wrote about marijuana back in 2009, and it looks like I don't have any good reason to change my mind on that.
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/10/marijuana-will-probably-be-legal-most-country-2020

If this is true, we'll soon find out if there is any truth to the charge that libertarians are just Republicans who like to smoke weed.

[NohopeSeriously]

Korea needs some marijuana ASAP.

[Ya-ta Boy]

Here's Where To Find The Cheapest Weed In The U.S.

The link has a map of the prices in the various states:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/25/marijuana-cost-_n_4159325.html