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CoolCly posted...

That's interesting, the average person is fine with it, yet the federal government is so hard line against it.. I wonder how much Session's hard stance on marijuana impacts all of the regulatory agencies also being hostile towards the Canadian marijuana industry. Does he have influence over them? Is Trump against it too?

Well part of the issue is the way the American government is set up. It doesn't always matter how many people support something but rather where those people are located at. Keep in mind that Clinton won by 2% points in the popular vote but still lost the electoral vote by a significant margin.

Now, that isn't as much of a factor here because that gap is so big you would expect that even if it was broken up by state, you could still cobble together enough senators that would come from states that support it. Another fact is look at the breakdown by age. The oldest generation opposes it while boomers are just barely in favor of it. Guess which two populations dominate our senate and house of reps? So you have smaller, more conservative states having an equal weight in the senate to states like California, so even if there are millions more in California that support and a couple thousand more in say North Dakota that oppose, those two get equal weight in vote for this. Plus the fact that a majority of senators are old and even most of the democrats aren't pushing for reform on this issue.

Just on anecdotal evidence, I can say those numbers look right. And even people that oppose it tend not to care that much. You'll walk by a bar or something and smell it and people will just go "ugh I hate that smell" and move on. But since this isn't a big issue even for people who support it, they aren't necessarily pushing their congresspeople on it. So its probably a lot of factors.

Interestingly, the racial group most in favor of legalization is white while the most opposed is hispanic, while it shows Republicans oppose and democrats support. Kind of weird numbers there.
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