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Nasty Jack

(350 posts)
Tue May 19, 2015, 01:48 PM May 2015

MOST AGREE THE TIME FOR LEGALIZING MARIJUANA HAS COME


Back as early as 2013, 58% of the public approved of legalizing marijuana. In 2015, Pew Research says 53% favor with 44% against. The question now is what new Atty. General Loretta Lynch will do in response to the urging of the Supreme Court for the Justice Dept. to take a position. Eric Holder before her exclaimed that he wouldn't challenge the states with legal marijuana. But Lynch, in her confirmation hearings, expressed strong views in favor of upholding the federal ban on marijuana. However, she didn't agree with Obama that it was more dangerous than alcohol. In Slate's examination of the first year of legalization (medical and recreational) apparently state teens did not increase their use as predicted. Number of drug related crimes remained steady or dropped. And a significant increase in highway fatalities due to drug us never happened as opponents prophesied. "Retail and medical weed generated more than $60 million in tax and licensing revenue for the state in 2014," much of which went to schools and the regulatory system. So what's the problem and that is something Loretta Lynch will have help decide.

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MOST AGREE THE TIME FOR LEGALIZING MARIJUANA HAS COME (Original Post) Nasty Jack May 2015 OP
the people against legalizing it have stacked the deck olddots May 2015 #1
 

olddots

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1. the people against legalizing it have stacked the deck
Tue May 19, 2015, 04:23 PM
May 2015

Its our job to make the cheaters go far , far away .

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