fivethirtyeight.com - 4/6/2009
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Back in February, we detailed how record numbers of Americans -- although certainly not yet a majority -- support the idea of legalizing marijuana. It turns out that there may be a simple explanation for this: an ever-increasing fraction of Americans have used pot at some point in their ...
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The Agitator —
... the pot legalization bandwagon. I’m telling you, we may be at a breakwater moment with this stuff. Stats guru Nate Silver seems to agree. ...
Why Legalization Is Gaining Steam
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Nate Silver runs the numbers on cannabis legalization and finds that pot attitudes correlate with age: There is not, of course, a one-to-one correspondence between having used marijuana and supporting its legalization; one can plausibly support its legalization without having ever inhaled, or vice versa. Nevertheless, I would venture that the correlation is fairly strong, and polls have generally found a fairly strong generation gap when it comes to pot legalization. As members of the Silent Generation are replaced in the electorate by ...
SAFER: Students Push for Parity of Punishment for Pot & Booze
The Moderate Voice —
... worse than underage drinking or drinking to excess, Tvert said. In so doing, universities are giving a signal to students that they’re less likely to be punished for using alcohol — a drug that has a history of causing greater problems on college campuses than marijuana, he said.
Andrew Sullivan points to a serious study that backs the students’ position. See also Sullivan’s ongoing Cannabis closet series. And Nate Silver on Why Marijuana Legalization is Gaining Momentum.
Not All Change Is Made By Government
Open Left - Front Page —
... Support for legalizing marijuana is increasing because more people have tried marijuana, not because of pro-marijuana lobbyists on Capital Hill. There are almost no mainstream political figures arguing for progressive change on marijuana policy, and yet it grows nonetheless. ...
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