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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums64% of Americans think pot should be legalized. So I doubt that Sessions's new policy
will help the party's prospects in November.
10/25/17
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/357053-poll-64-percent-of-americans-support-legalizing-marijuana
A new Gallup poll shows growing support for marijuana legalization, with 64 percent of Americans now in favor of the measure.
The number is the highest level of support in nearly half a century of surveying adults on the issue, according to Gallup. Support has steadily increased in recent years, with the latest figure up 4 percentage points over last year and up 14 points from 2011.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)pnwmom
(108,994 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)Will the Democrats make that mistake again?
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)to take the lead on this issue.
still_one
(92,396 posts)Democrat running for Senate in those critical swing states in 2016 lost to the incumbent, establishment, republican.
Of course I hope you are right pnwmom, but I am not sure if the legalization of weed make or break situation for them. I would have thought that if nothing else a woman's right to choose would have been paramount in 2016, but it appears the Supreme Court wasn't high on their list of importance
Sorry for my negativity, and I hope my cynicism gets thrown right back at me that I am full of it.
If we actually win both houses of Congress in 2018, I will be convinced that people have awaken