Why Marijuana Legalization is Gaining Momentum
Sunday, April 5th, 2009 at 11:36 pm | By: Justice
Why Marijuana Legalization is Gaining Momentum
My favorite statistician Nate Silver (who accurately predicted the 2008 president, senate and house races) has put his thinking cap on for Marijuana Legalization and seems to have found a trend that is very positive for our cause.
More important to the policy debate, however, may be the fraction of adults who have used marijuana at any point in their lifetimes. This is a dual-peaked distribution, with one peak occurring among adults who are roughly age 50 now, and would have come of age in the 1970s, and another among adults in their early 20s. Generation X, meanwhile, in spite of its reputation for slackertude, were somewhat less eager consumers of pot than the generations either immediately preceding or proceeding them.
…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 younger voters, who are more likely to have either smoked marijuana themselves or been around those that have, support for legalization is likely to continue to gain momentum.
Of course it’s not about if you tried marijuana or not, you certainly can support legalization for other reasons. But if you’ve used it, you’d know that all the ONDCP garbage was certainly not true. Let’s face it, the drug war hasn’t moved one inch from it’s lies from the past.
Topics: Legalization
