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In reply to the discussion: Obama has become more hostile to medical marijuana patients than any president in U.S. history [View all]RainDog
(28,784 posts)the polls tell the story about this issue for the American people. Those polls are the result of people who have worked with state legislatures to change laws because, as Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis noted, "States are the incubators for democracy."
Democracy has spoken about this issue through the avenue that is available to citizens: the vote.
The success of the legalization movement is pretty amazing when you consider the huge obstacles and the reality that a minority of states allow initiatives on their ballots.
In spite of political attempts to thwart the will of the people at the state level, citizens have continued to insist that their vote should be honored. In Arizona, citizens had to vote for legal medical marijuana THREE TIMES - and they did. Legislators have still tried to block implementation of law, rather than LOOK AT WHY THEY ARE OPPOSED.
When Americans have had access to factual information, rather than propaganda, they have chosen to legalize medical marijuana. Yet we pay the salary of an entire bureaucracy (The "Drug Czar" and his minions) to lie to the American people - that one particular agency is a spectacular failure. Yet it continues. The inertia among the beltway political class is really astounding.
So is the bias.