I am an extreme, fanatical social conservative on issues such as queer civil bonding, pro-life, porn and depravity of all kinds. Even am too conservative for most all parishes of my church (Catholic).
But on pot I am neutral or slightly in favor (but definitely not in favor of chronic use, as with alcohol). I am in Washington State.
I get the idea most people here who are strongly opposed are a little older than me (59).
I’m 58 and strongly opposed. Texas.
Lung cancer, throat cancer, oral cancer.....all topics carefully avoided on these threads I note.
The more I look into it, the more I'm convinced that the War on Drugs has no legitimate authority — some of the decisions from the USSC that justify it are terrifying in their implications (Gonzalez v. Raich and Kentucky v. King spring immediately to mind) and many of the laws are contrary to the constitution (the asset forfeiture acts, and so forth).
The people who most represent traditional, conservative America, the people that JFK wanted to replace with his immigration law, and the people that the left can't wait to die off.
Conservatism is dying and is being replaced with what will be a short lived transitory, conservative/libertarian lite, short lived because social liberalism leads to liberal voters and decreases the number of conservative voters.