The political and statistical web site, FiveThirtyEight.com, which correctly forecasted the results of the last presidential election in 49 of 50 and home of Nate Silver, innovator of the PECOTA (Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm), has "compiled a database of every past poll I could find on this subject, including a series of Gallup polls and results from the General Social Survey, and could never before find more than 36 percent of the population (Gallup in October, 2005) stating a position in favor of legalization."
While somewhat sobering in terms of timeframes for complete Federal Legalization, the results are tremendously encouraging for HR5843 as near term positive step toward that eventuality. And yeah, you can thank your mom and dad, because it's WE who constitute the demographic tipping point over the past 40 years of activism:
The pro-legalization position may have some generational momentum as well. According to an AARP poll conducted several years ago, while just 8 percent of Americans aged 70 or older had ever tried pot, lifetime usage rates grow to 58 percent among 45-49 year olds.As always, we invite you to obey the law as it is no matter how stupid, so that you can put all that righteous energy to work for The Revolution. We need your help, we can't take it the last ten yards over the goal line without you.
Nulle Bastardo Carborundum.
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