About weed.

[Warren DeMontague]

25. Classic. Of course, even Bernie ... he soft-pedaled the issue unnecessarily.

He was absolutely correct in stating that it needs to be descheduled at the Federal Level, that should be the bare minimum from our candidate in 2020.

But Sanders fell prey to this thinking, presumably coming from his staff, that it was an issue they didn't want to make too much noise about. They disinvited Tommy Chong from some rally, I remember that, and it left a bad taste in the mouths of a lot of pro-legalization folks.

I think- I've said this before, but I believe the analysis gets short shrift- there is just a yawning psychological divide between the West and East Coasts, on a bunch of things (like wearing shorts to restaurants) but it plays out particularly starkly in terms of marijuana.

It's not that there aren't pro-legalization people on the East Coast, and certainly a lot of pot smokers- but culturally I think when you get back East there's this big glaring divide between the "straights" and the hippies or freaks or weirdos or whatever you want to call them. And it's not like there aren't plenty of East Coast, workaday, 3 piece "straights" who go home to the Manhattan Condo and smoke a bowl... but they hide it and pretend like it's some state fucking secret.

Meanwhile, drinking yourself to blackout, hard liquor oblivion every weekend is fairly standard practice in your financial services or investment industry

Get out West, and no one fucking cares. People's grandparents get high. There's no divide between the job people and the pot people, hell, Silicon Valley was founded by acidheads and hippies.