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posted by martyb on Saturday October 28 2017, @01:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the next-up?-legalize-pans! dept.

64% of Americans now support the legalization of cannabis, an all-time high since Gallup first asked the question in 1969. Also for the first time, a majority of Republicans (51%) support legalization, up from 42% last year:

As efforts to legalize marijuana at the state level continue to yield successes, public opinion, too, has shifted toward greater support. The Department of Justice under the current Republican administration has been perceived as hostile to state-level legalization. But Attorney General Jeff Sessions could find himself out of step with his own party if the current trends continue. Rank-and-file Republicans' views on the issue have evolved just as Democrats' and independents' have, though Republicans remain least likely to support legalizing pot.

Also at NPR, The Hill, NORML, and Reason.

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  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday October 28 2017, @08:31PM (3 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Saturday October 28 2017, @08:31PM (#588786) Journal

    Well, your congress better be ready with a new one when it does, just like they do with the budget.

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    La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 28 2017, @08:50PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 28 2017, @08:50PM (#588793)

    If your hopes for a long life are pinned on the US Congress being ready ahead of a deadline, you may not want to put off shopping for a nice plot.

    • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday October 28 2017, @09:20PM (1 child)

      by fustakrakich (6150) on Saturday October 28 2017, @09:20PM (#588802) Journal

      No, I pin my hopes on the civility of the people around me. Not everybody needs an act of congress to act courteously and respectably. Those that do aren't going to change anyway.

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      La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 29 2017, @09:38PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 29 2017, @09:38PM (#589221)

        Interesting that you expect civility from "the people around you" when you lie like a rug. [soylentnews.org] Even if you merely perceived in your own mind as having given answers to the questions you'd claimed to have answered, a simple link to your "answer" is supremely easy to do. That you didn't is evidence of your malice.