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Re:Why Is It So Hard to Study Marijuana? by 0x00000000 on Sunday July 02, 2017 @01:06PM (#14683293)
Would the next president really have the motivation to revert it? Aside from pharma lobbying I don't see why they would.

I also have a very skewed concept of how the American public as a whole views marijuana but I can't imagine it is overwhelmingly negative

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Re:Why Is It So Hard to Study Marijuana? by mwfunk on Sunday July 02, 2017 @01:58PM (#14683567)
Well, the current president's Attorney General believes marijuana is just barely less bad than heroin. Not an exaggeration, not putting words in his mouth. You're right that the American public in general is fine with it, but evangelicals (and social conservatives in general) have a much greater voice in our government than their numbers in the general population would merit.
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Re:Why Is It So Hard to Study Marijuana? by bluejekyll on Sunday July 02, 2017 @02:04PM (#14683593)
According to Gallup it wasn't until 2011 that more than 50% thought it should be legal:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/196550/support-legal-marijuana.as...

That claims it's up to 60% now.

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