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Newst Gallup Poll: 2 in 3 Americans Support Legalization

fatigues

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The newest Gallup Poll confirms that support for legalization continues to increase. Findings now confirm that 66% of Americans now support legalization.

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The support continues to increase year over year, especially among older voters, Gallup confirms. Support for legalization has spiked considerably in several key demographics over the past year. For example, there has been a nine-point increase among older Americans, with 59 percent of those aged 55 and over now saying it is time to end marijuana's criminalization.

Part of this is due to changing beliefs and a perception that the older view is no longer a popular one.

The other part of it is that the demographics of just exactly who is being measured in the "55 and older" crowd is changing, too. The age group only appears to be static. It isn't. The identity of who it is measuring is changing every year.

If you are 55 now in the United States, you graduated high school in 1980-81. Demographically speaking, the incidence of marijuana use as a teenager in the United States was never higher until very recently than it was for the class of 1979-80. That trend continues until the mid-80s, when it starts to decrease again for a time.

Conversely, members of the Greatest Generation and the Silent Generation -- who have opposed legalization and whose personal experience with cannabis is less than one-in-ten -- are no longer being picked up in the annual Gallup poll. That's for the very good reason that they are now dead.

Every year, those who are opposed to legalization keep dying in massive numbers. Every year, those who are supportive of legalization keep getting older and, surprise surprise, aren't dying in large numbers -- for the good reason that they probably have another 20-25 or so years left in them. The ones who support legalization in large numbers are in their early to mid-50s (and younger), while those who oppose it most strenuously are north of 65.

Even the party breakdown is not that significant anymore. Legalization has majority support from voters supporting all parties. Likely voter profiles still make this a dicey affair in Red States -- because seniors are more likely to vote in larger numbers than those who are younger -- but even that opposing majority will totally vanish by ~2022, if not sooner.

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At a super-majority of support now virtually across the entire nation, there is no reason to believe that what the demographics have pointed to will not arrive sometime between now and 2024: Legalization at the US Federal level.

The perspective on this issue from 2009 is in the link in my sig. It has already proved to be true in a swath of US states as well as, last week, in Canada at a national level.

The Moral of the Story?

Legalization is coming -- and that demographic train cannot be stopped. I know that makes some black market growers very uneasy on this site. Whatever the case -- and whatever your view -- it doesn't really matter one tinker's damn.

You cannot stop it. Nobody can.
 

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St. Phatty

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How many of the people that don't support it, are American-style faux Christians ?

I know the largest Xtian church in my town made it a point to tell its largely conservative rural audience that Cannabis is BAD BAD BAD, in early 2016/2017.
 

mean mr.mustard

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Florida shocked me.

Even Oklahoma is coming around.

If Texas does anything I would consider Federal changes an actual possibility.
 

mean mr.mustard

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We could wonder what's next.

I'm guessing legal states begin to realize deregulation would have been a better pipe dream.

Because legalization was once a pipe dream too.
 

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We have come a long way from the late 80's early 90's when they use to have those after school specials on TV in America all the time that would always go through the same 4 stages.


Stage one- Little Johnny comes across some kids behind the school gym that look like Bender from the Breakfast club,young Kelly Bundy from the 1989 season of Married with Children and Todd from Beavis and Butt Head smoking a marijuana joint. Little Johnny is shocked at first but after Bender Kelly and Todd call him a chicken turbo nerd dork he takes one hit off the joint so he will look cool and from that point on he is a victim of drug abuse and now a marijuana addict.


Stage 2- Now that Johnny is a marijuana addict his clothes are kinda messed up and disheveled his hair is kind of messy and he ALWAYS ALWAYS wears sunglasses to cover up his red eyes. In the late 80's ALL MARIJUANA ADDICTS WORE SUNGLASSES NO EXCEPTIONS!! To get his fix he must steal from his younger sisters piggy bank, he must steal from his older sisters closet where she keeps the money raised from the bake sale that was going to fund the class field trip! He must steal the gas money from his mothers purse!


Stage 3- This is the climax where Johnny's parents confront him about the missing money and say Johnny your not yourself your pupils are slightly dilated your heart rate is increased while your blood pressure is decreased and your having visual problems with depth perception pattern recognition night vision and reaction time....... Are you on drugs? Johnny is in withdrawal so he says !!!SHUT THE FUCK UP MOMMY!!! and runs out of the house on to the mean streets where he gets arrested by a police officer with a mullet haircut handle bar mustache and large cinder block sized walkie talkie "like every police officer in the first season of the show COPS" stealing a car stereo and the police find crack in his pocket.


Stage 4- Hulk Hogan Mr. T and Nancy Reagan go to the police station to pick him up and tell him he aint nothin but a fool for getting on them drugs. He needs to get off them drugs STOP BEING A FOOL AND STAY IN SCHOOL!!!! Johnny then stops being a fool stays off them drugs and stays in school. The end.
 
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yesum

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I like the people from WW2 era but this is a plus for the rest of us that they are not gonna be around to mess with this issue. Maybe the only plus.

Religious fundamentalists are going to oppose this till the end. I know one. He also would like gay porn outlawed and likely other 'moral' restrictions put on the unbelievers. Nice guy but brainwashed by his church.
 

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