The GOP needs to compete for their vote - which starts with taking the limited-government stand that marijuana should be legalized.
“The GOP needs to compete for their vote - which starts with taking the limited-government stand that marijuana should be legalized.”
Won’t work.
Pot makes people think weird and accept all the leftist propaganda.
The GOP needs to compete for their vote - which starts with taking the limited-government stand that marijuana should be legalized. There's ideology and then there's reality.
I have my opinions on pot legalization but I'll keep them to myself. The fact of the matter that putting a pot initiative on the ballot is going to bring out the habitual pot smokers who will overwhelmingly vote democrat. No amount of limited government talk by republicans will change that. Marijuana users are statistically much more likely than the average American to be unemployed and on public assistance which means they're usually going to vote democrat. You'd get the same turnout if you put an initiative to give extra money to single mothers for child care, the turnout would be heavily democratic voters. I'm not arguing the merits of pot one way or the other, the fact is that putting a measure about pot on the ballot at the same time as a national election is politically stupid for republicans. You can argue limited government all you want but habitual pot users are going to vote democrat for no other reason that democrats will give them more money to sit home and stay stoned.