Eric Holder Would Be 'Glad To Work With Congress' To Reschedule Marijuana

[RainDog]

17. I'm hoping it's possible to appeal to the fiscal side

of Republican ideology to get them to recognize what a waste of American lives this current situation really is.

But they do have a conflict, in terms of their political strategy to use various forms of voter suppression to keep people from exercising their rights. Since drug laws are so racially biased in their application - repukes get a boost from these sorts of "blue laws" that appeal to the prohibitionists in their ranks, too.

Most red states seem to have to appeal to religious conservatives and racists more than economic conservatives, at least so far. Republicans are not going to be the party that moves this nation forward as long as they have to give lip service to the religious right.

Rohrbacker, from CA, is the only Republican who signed on to the Blumenaur and Polis bills, iirc. And here is Issa, from the same state, taking the opposite side. I don't know who, of the two, is more influential in CA-rep politics.