President Obama's puzzling silence on marijuana policy

[RainDog]

12. Not necessarily

youth voters do not have the same sort of "brand loyalty" that older voters have. This editorial specifically talks about how the youth vote is disappointed by Obama's actions concerning this issue - which, again, consistently out polls any other "netroots" issue.

All political groups poll overwhelmingly in favor of legal mmj and, this year, for the first time, a majority is in favor of full legalization.

The largest groups that do not support legalization are Republicans who are not going to vote for him anyway and the elderly - who are not going to be voting over the long term in the same numbers that younger voters will.

A political party that wants to secure its favor among young voters might want to consider the impact of ignoring the poll numbers - those for legalizing mmj have been far, far above 50% for more than a decade.

Obama has members of the House bringing forth proposed legislation, hundreds of economists, more than 50 lawyers in CA regarding prop 19, the AMA, members of the UN - ALL calling for an end to the current laws. People see this and wonder what political advantage it serves to ignore these people plus the millions of young people who worked so hard to elect President Obama.