And the "betting" on it was most likely established in the minds of people by #FakeNews sources like AP.
These lefties have a kind of caricature about right and left, same as a lot of righties do (except that’s a different caricature).
Donald Trump is trying to bridge the divide, which lands him with a Thanksgiving dinner’s worth of stuff on his plate. He can’t possibly address it all. However he’s not come fulminating about a “marijuana menace” either. Like the good doctor, his first rule is do no harm — and prohibition always does constitutional harm. Always.
The battle of drug abuse should be one of churches and of faith. Churches, show why faith in God is better than partaking in some intoxicant until a body is stunned. Don’t just mouth about it. And don’t pretend that it isn’t going on vigorously in the shadows no matter what the human attempts to ban it are.