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David Crosby: "Pot is like beer and wine. Legalize it dammit then all the young people will vote" (Original Post) bigtree Aug 2020 OP
Coincidentally, Stephen Stills played one of the Dem Convention songs. You'd think they'd be kysrsoze Aug 2020 #1
I Think He's Right ProfessorGAC Aug 2020 #2
He is 100% correct. n/t ms liberty Aug 2020 #3
If we want pot to be Federally decriminalize, no choice on who beachbumbob Aug 2020 #4
that pretty much describes most issues vs. Trump bigtree Aug 2020 #5

kysrsoze

(6,019 posts)
1. Coincidentally, Stephen Stills played one of the Dem Convention songs. You'd think they'd be
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 01:16 PM
Aug 2020

listening to David Crosby, among many others who have suggested this. It's an easy lay-up.

ProfessorGAC

(64,998 posts)
2. I Think He's Right
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 01:22 PM
Aug 2020

As simple as it is, legalizing pot screams liberal!
Would attract some "not liberal enough" or "they're all the same" people that don't vote.

 

beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)
4. If we want pot to be Federally decriminalize, no choice on who
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 01:26 PM
Aug 2020

to vote for. We don't have to have it as a campaign issue but the outcome of a overwhelming landslide. That should be motivation enough.

bigtree

(85,987 posts)
5. that pretty much describes most issues vs. Trump
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 02:04 PM
Aug 2020

...yet we make direct appeals to different constituencies all of the time.

Thought I heard someone say take no vote for granted, and we don't have one vote to waste.

This is also a criminal justice issue, useless arrests have needlessly prevented gainful and other employment, arrests and convictions disproportionate in black neighborhoods, and with black individuals nationwide.

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