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Man from Pickens

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5. The Democratic Party is underperforming stoners by 15 percent

Reply to Jackpine Radical (Reply #3)

Fri Nov 7, 2014, 12:07 AM

Nov 2014

It would be funny if the consequences were not so very serious.

There is zero excuse for any Democrat not to be stridently for decriminalization (at the very minimum - really, full legalization is where we should push them to be).

If there is any issue that, more than any other, brings those 2/3rds of the electorate that does not normally vote out to the polls, this is it.

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Marijuana activists eye new targets after election wins [View all] Man from Pickens Nov 2014 OP

That and raising the minimum wage... Kalidurga Nov 2014 #1

I doubt it helped that the head of the DNC thinks cancer patients should be arrested for smoking pot Warren DeMontague Nov 2014 #2

I can think of no (non-nefarious) reason why so many Dems should be Jackpine Radical Nov 2014 #3

There's probably some of that... non-nefarious, I think it's really a combination of a few things Warren DeMontague Nov 2014 #4

^^^ Saved me the trouble. nt Eleanors38 Nov 2014 #8

The Democratic Party is underperforming stoners by 15 percent Man from Pickens Nov 2014 #5

Exactly. Jackpine Radical Nov 2014 #6

I agree. And where they aren't... well, well, looky here. Warren DeMontague Nov 2014 #7

All the more remarkable that FL voted 58% when Eleanors38 Nov 2014 #9