Nancy Pelosi Is the Most Effective Member of the Resistence

[Warren DeMontague]

61. I would say that the East Coast leadership seems more reflexively uptight on the issue.

Not the voters, of course- look at Mass. and Maine. But if you compare the behavior of the legislature in MA- which has done everything it can to delay implementation of recreational legalization- to that of the legislature combined with Gov. Kate Brown in Oregon, which implemented early recreational sales through existing medical dispensaries before the full recreational apparatus could come online-- it's like night and day.

The simple fact of the matter is, it's an issue that polls at increasingly popular levels, and we would be fools not to take it up. It is tailor made for us to exploit the divisions in the GOP between their jesusbagger control freak fingerwaggers and their libertarian wing.

For whatever reason some people seem to treat it like it's an irritating distraction, here, but the polls don't lie.

Gavin Newsom, to his credit, has been out ahead of it for some time. I don't know how many specific statements on the matter Senator Harris has made, I know she avoided talking about it because of her prior gig as CA AG- that said I am reasonably certain she is committed to defending the will of the voters of California via prop. 64. Feinstein, OTOH, is a freaking disaster on the topic.

Here are the Senators that signed the letter to Sessions asking that he respect the will of the voters in recreational legal states: Warren, Murkowski, Murray, Wyden, Merkley, Cantwell, Markey, Schatz, Masto, Booker, Bennet.

https://www.scribd.com/document/340769226/Letter-from-U-S-Senators-to-Attorney-General-Jeff-Sessions-regarding-recreational-marijuana

Booker and Gillibrand were both involved in the CARERS act, too, I believe to their credit.