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Uncle Joe

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Sat Jan 7, 2012, 06:21 PM Jan 2012

With half of Americans in favor, ‘the mainstream, centrist position is to support

legalizing marijuana’

http://current.com/shows/the-young-turks/videos/with-half-of-americans-in-favor-the-mainstream-centrist-position-is-to-support-legalizing-marijuana

"Salon.com contributor David Sirota joins Cenk to talk about mainstream opinions end up being characterized as “extreme” by politicians. Gallup found half of Americans support fully legalizing marijuana, and 77 percent support medical marijuana.

Sirota says, “The mainstream, centrist position is to support legalizing marijuana and the extremists are those who say we should continue to fight the drug war.” And similar figures show up for support of the “public option” in health care reform, too."
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With half of Americans in favor, ‘the mainstream, centrist position is to support (Original Post) Uncle Joe Jan 2012 OP
Bill I've Been it ,are the only benafactors . orpupilofnature57 Jan 2012 #1
Depends on the state treestar Jan 2012 #2
…except for a few minor details, Jackpine Radical Jan 2012 #3
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