Amazon Is Lobbying the US Government to Make Pot Legal

Re:Amazon Is Lobbying the US Government to Make Pot Legal by bobbleheads on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @10:05AM (#28616438)

I'm not sure that the majority opinion is that it is on tier with mp3 piracy.

In cooler towns like London, Manchester, Bristol, Sheffield maybe. But my parents in the midlands are strictly anti-drugs and see cannabis as as bad as cocaine, and its the case like that for all their friends and the community around.

The culture in the UK is just too different than the culture in the US.

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Re:Amazon Is Lobbying the US Government to Make Pot Legal by BoxOfRain on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @10:22AM (#28616616)

I think there's a lot of geographical variation, I live in an area that would traditionally be considered very Tory-ish but it seems fairly common judging by the smell in public places. I have to admit my experience is probably biased by my social circle, but polling does suggest that staunch prohibitionists aren't nearly as common as our political climate would suggest.

This YouGov survey in 2019 has twice as many people supporting than opposing legalisation for example:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cannabis-leg...

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Re:Amazon Is Lobbying the US Government to Make Pot Legal by LocalH on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @11:21AM (#28617362)

It's more granular than that. There are localities where the prevalent opinion is anti-cannabis, and localities where the opposite is true. I am in the state of Tennessee, and I have a family member who believes that a person who buys and consumes cannabis is "subsidizing murder".

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Re:Amazon Is Lobbying the US Government to Make Pot Legal by ry4nolson on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @10:20AM (#28616596)

That honestly sounds exactly like the culture in the US.

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