Gallup
Poll: 64% want federal government out of state marijuana laws
At the same time, Americans remain quite divided in their overall support for legalization of marijuana use, with 48% in the poll saying it should be legal, and 50% saying it should not be. Americans’ views are roughly the same as they were last October, but as recently as 2005, only about a third of Americans supported marijuana legalization. In 1969, when Gallup first asked about the issue, 12% supported legalizing pot.
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Mob rule is neat.
tom daschle concerned on December 10, 2012 at 1:04 PM
I am the 64%…
JohnGalt23 on December 10, 2012 at 1:05 PM
meh weed sucks but it’s criminalization was brought to us by the same a-holes that gave us prohibition the feds should get out of it. though i’d be shocked if Obama is willing to relinquish any federal power.
bannor on December 10, 2012 at 1:11 PM
64% don’t have any plans beyond the bong hit.
BobMbx on December 10, 2012 at 1:12 PM
Heh i don’t think this is what we have in mind when we say “let it burn”
bannor on December 10, 2012 at 1:14 PM
I support ending the war on drugs. I have never once taken a drug that is considered illegal, with one exception of when someone seems to have spiked one of my drinks at a bar. No idea what that was, but it was a horrible experience.
astonerii on December 10, 2012 at 1:15 PM
I love when Progs are all states’ rights and everything…except when they aren’t.
Resist We Much on December 10, 2012 at 1:18 PM
While I agree with the sentiment of the 64% there are always federal issues to consider. Interstate trafficking and foreign import, etc. So the feds will never be completely out out of the game. So long as even 1 state keeps pot illegal then there will be federal involvement.
Rocks on December 10, 2012 at 1:19 PM
first pot, then coke, then they want me to pay for their health care and mental health sessions.
IR-MN on December 10, 2012 at 1:20 PM
Do we want the feds out of state crack laws? Don’t be a hypocrite, support legalization there too.
thebrokenrattle on December 10, 2012 at 1:25 PM
Yes, the “Mob” has been ruling on this issue for decades:
lester on December 10, 2012 at 1:26 PM
Anybody who wants the feral government out of anything should not be voting for Obama.
forest on December 10, 2012 at 1:29 PM
If marijuana is ever legal in Texas (likely never), I might give it a go for arthritis. Missed the chance to try it for no damn good reason back in the 70s.
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 10, 2012 at 1:30 PM
Democrats should consider alcohol and weed subsidies for the unemployed so they stay unemployed. The last thing democrats want is more people working. Dependence on government is easier to maintain with drugs.
darwin on December 10, 2012 at 1:32 PM
Legalize and tax it. Once it’s no longer naughty people will lose interest in it.
CrustyB on December 10, 2012 at 1:32 PM
No tax. Taxes will require a vast army of new bureaucrats to oversee the tax and enforcement units to exact the tax from citizens.
darwin on December 10, 2012 at 1:36 PM
I’m in the 64%, not because I support weed or that I identify with the annoying “legalize it!” crowd, but because this position naturally fits with my constitutional conservatism. I support state sovereignty here.
The GOP should get out in front of this because it’s the only way young people will understand the states rights position…assuming the GOP still cares about Federalism.
Daemonocracy on December 10, 2012 at 1:39 PM
first of all that’s not being a hypocrite because crack and pot are completely different drugs with crack practically qualifying as a chemical weapon.
Second, yes, if a state wants to legalize all drugs then I just don’t give a damn as long as private employers and the feds can still drug screen when needed.
Daemonocracy on December 10, 2012 at 1:42 PM
Mob rule is what you get when, on the one side you have organized crime running the drug market, not to mention their counterparts in the organized police-state. They’re the Mob, not the American people who want the Mob racket out of their life and to stop busting in their doors and shooting their dogs and traumatizing their kids because they smoke.
FloatingRock on December 10, 2012 at 1:50 PM
So? Alcohol and pot are two different drugs. Why should 2 out of the 3 be legal? Why not one or none or all?
thebrokenrattle on December 10, 2012 at 1:58 PM
Indeed. Alcohol has destroyed far more lives.
libfreeordie on December 10, 2012 at 2:29 PM
Oh please come save us from ourselves big powerful federal government. If you don’t tell us what to do we might get hooked on “reefer madness.” Oh lord please have the federal government come save us. If it wasn’t for the all wise, all knowing federal government I don’t know what I do.(sarcasm)
You big government tyrants are simply just weak minded fools.
MoreLiberty on December 10, 2012 at 2:49 PM
It’s basically libturd states where marijuana is legal so just wait until the feds and the dumbmass bureaucrats in those blue states are satisfied that their residents are all good and hooked on it and the states that allow medical use only legalize it for recreational use, cuz in the meantime the gubmint I’m sure is working out how to regulate and tax it for massive new revenue streams. Pretty soon you’ll see varieties of standardized manufactured packs and cartons of weed cigarettes for sale that will be taxed up the wazoo like regular ones are now, and that doesn’t even take into account the massive new bong market that will take off. Then a new black market will spring up for weed cigs (and ancillary products) just like it did for tobacco cigs in Chicago with the excessive taxes they levied. And we’ll be right back at square one with illegal marijuana smuggling.
stukinIL4now on December 10, 2012 at 2:51 PM