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[AverageJoe90]

28. I dunno about you, but I wouldn't be too sure about these polls, as an absolute gauge of overall...

Public opinion. Call me crazy if you must, but I kinda doubt 84 percent of people overall wanted marijuana to be illegal, even in 1969; 60 percent is probably more believable, as there were certainly at least a fair number of people in the middle. I'd even shoot for 55 percent(yes, even with conservative hatred of hippies and Reefer Madness taken into account).

But then again, having done my research, it seems like a lot of the major polling firms have pretty much always been at least somewhat slanted on these social issues mainly to try avoiding pissing off hardcore conservatives, especially from the Reagan era going backwards.....even if perhaps subtly. After all, this was the Cold War era, and conservative influence was often disporportionately inflated compared to their actual numbers anyway(perhaps the most obvious clue is the repoty showing, supposedly, 94 percent of Americans totally opposed to interracial marriage in 1954. Which was totally bogus when you think about it; this may sound numbers like that wouldn't have quite been that high even in the ultra-propagandized Orwellian nightmare that was Nazi Germany circa 1939, and that regime gave us the Holocaust. Not to mention this was simply not an issue that many people even thought about. A reasonable guess for that era would be about 40-50 percent definitively against, about, 10, maybe 15 openly for, with the rest falling in squarely the middle to various degrees.). And then again, there's certainly other factors, too(especially fact that these polling public opinion is a whole different ball game that polling the next Presidential election anyway, which may be the biggest secondary reason).

All I'm saying is, don't believe everything you read off the cuff.....