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Warren DeMontague

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6. the ONLY reason the Libertarians are polling as well as they are, is marijuana legalization.
Fri Sep 30, 2016, 06:49 PM
Sep 2016

If we would show a little more leadership on that at the national level, as Newsom and Blumenauer and Merkley have done, we could undercut their support significantly, particularly with Millennials.

What people refuse to get- particularly East Coast beltway types who still think pot is some fringey joke issue- is that those folks dont WANT a "reasonable republican". They really just want a solid progressive who believes in science and has a brain; who nevertheless understands that we need to stop sending cops into peoples' living rooms to drag them off in handcuffs for smoking a fucking PLANT.

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