My actual issue with this is:
a) it should have been done sooner. Waiting until $election_year to do something popular has severely damaged the growth of cannabis industry
and b) it's another executive branch rule by decree that could be reversed as soon as 6 months from now after election day.
Do you own weed stocks or something? How is the growth of the cannabis industry supposed to be the mandate of a government?
Not everyone agrees though. I don't want it legalized or normalized more.
And no I doubt this will rouse the pot smokers to vote, perhaps mail in, as they don’t have to do actually anything.
While you can make some amount of case that the timing makes it a manipulation, is this really the manipulation that bothers you?
I would rather there be no manipulations. But in a country that divides itself on infantile identity politics, fight fire with fire.
It is not a fair game. You can’t demand perfect intentions around this issue when politics is full of much worse actors.
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Putting it another way nearly 3 quarters of citizens want it legalized. That's massive. It's as close to unanimous consensus as you can get on a hot-button issue like drugs.
