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Giving voters what they want is desperate? Isn’t it better than the country being dragged by the minority around a drug that is less harmful than alcohol? 24 US states have legalized it for recreational use with no material harm to be observed. 38 states have legalized it for medical use.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/03/26/most-america...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_cannabis_by_U.S._j...

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Too early to say if there’s no harm from smoking pot. There are a ton of studies on alcohol and very few on Mary Jane.

https://archive.is/RUYvR

Out of nowhere? Less than a month before the election? Yes.

Ehh, if it gets the vote out for more younger voters, whatevs. Early voting numbers so far look great.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/wp-content/uploads/site...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/early-vote

Yeah, some of us are kind of tired of politicians, though.

>if it gets the vote [...] whatevs

Precisely, because of this.

Edit: I was replying to your comment about "feelings don't matter" or some nonsense, but you backpedaled and deleted it, enough said I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Those links are from 2023 and 2020, respectively. Not sure what point you’re trying to convey or if you grabbed the wrong article

My first link illustrates that the electorate continues to tilt left/progressive as 1.8M voters over the age of 55 die every year, 5k per day (per the CDC); those voters lean very far to the right. 4M voters turn 18 every year, they lean very far to the left (including women [1]). The data should not be evaluated as a snapshot in time, but instead viewed as a sliding window, as a demographic system. This is not politics, importantly; this is demographics, with political outcomes being the resulting output of the system.

My second link was the wrong link, thank you! I have updated that link to a 2024 election cycle link.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41522705 (citations)

Yes, because there's a good chance that the Senate will become Republican this round, and the marihuana legislation will get stuck there. The Democrats will say "but we tried", the Republicans will score points with their clientele, and everything will go on just as before because Biden-Harris run on a platform of keeping the status quo.

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