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In reply to the discussion: Patrick Kennedy spouts nonsense on Amendment 64 (Legal Cannabis in Colorado) [View all]RainDog
(28,784 posts)and that they should begin with marijuana.
This group, however, is bipartisan.
David Frum is a Republican strategist and spokesperson who has also lent his name to this group. Frum is also a self-identified conservative religious person. I assume his stance on this issue stems from the long association of rural and religious voters with prohibition movements throughout American history.
In fact, FDR won the White House by moving away from the rural, Southern and Midwestern Democratic voter to an alignment with urban Irish and Italian Democrats. That's how prohibition was overturned - by the constant "in your face" from LaGuardia about the ridiculousness of alcohol prohibition, along with others, who provided the counter to the propaganda from the religious who wanted all of America to be alcohol free because of their personal religious beliefs - which were not shared by a lot of other religious folks.
Anyway, it's interesting that two sides of the old prohibition are united in the new prohibition.