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"We the People Will Legalize Marijuana, NOT Obama!"
From the Marijuana Community
Young people, people in my generation and young support it, overwhelmingly, now apparently (according to the Gallup Poll 50%) of Americans are in favor of decriminalizing marijuana. And not all Americans are under fifty, a lot of Americans aren't.
We have 2.4M people in prison in America or under some form of public supervision, the largest Prison population in the world (on a per-capita basis) hundreds of thousands of those people are under supervision, because of drug related crimes.
Our country is essentially broke with a 14T$ debt in a 14T$ economy ,and most of our states are broke as well and looking to cut spending everywhere, including in corrections. And states like California are now looking to release non-violent offenders. Like drug offenders and this is already happening in California as Governor Jerry Brown announced a couple of weeks ago.
Americans tend to want to be able to control what they put in their body's and how they live their lives, as that Gallup Poll suggests. And of course there's the hypocrisy of our War on Drugs: where we essentially have three drugs in America that represent about the same amount of health risks: alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana, but two of them legal, of course alcohol and tobacco.
