Rolling Stone: Just Say Now

[RainDog]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/192121?RS_show_page=2

the Broadus effect. lol.


When asked how the party can get first-time Obama voters to show up this fall, the 78-year-old chairman of the California Democratic Party, John Burton, gave a one-word answer: "Pot." Indeed, polls indicate that legalization could lure Obama voters to the polls like no other issue. The progressive blog Firedoglake and Students for Sensible Drug Policy recently launched a "Just Say Now" campaign, both online and through college campuses, to turn out young voters. And Nate Silver, the noted political statistician, believes that polling on pot, which shows legalization with a 50-50 chance of passing, may undercount its true support. In a reverse of the so-called Bradley Effect, in which white voters support black candidates in public but vote against them in private, voters may denounce legalization to pollsters but quietly support it on Election Day. Silver dubs this the "Broadus Effect" in honor of Calvin Broadus, better known as Snoop Dogg.

earlier in Rolling Stone: Marijuana America: A Green Revolution Sweeping America

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/8813/52356

[sam kane]

1. hee hee hee ha ha nt.

[CreekDog]

2. I'm voting yes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e18eE33juE8&feature=related

[RainDog]

4. are you making fun of me?!?!?!

surely I can find some way to be offended by that video!

[CreekDog]

11. no, i just thought he voted yes too

:rofl:

[RainDog]

15. if the legislation passes, Walter still won't roll on Shabbos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmULYr1nsZ0

[EFerrari]

3. Now *that* is the smartest thing I've heard a politican say in years.

LOL

[RainDog]

5. it's a really interesting article

and the subject is even getting the attention of Forbes, as far as job creation, etc. from possible legalization.

[calimary]

6. Agreed!

:headbang:

[RainDog]

7. Forbes Magazine: Mapping the Legal Marijuana Industry

I'm going to combine these two posts

http://www.forbes.com/2010/08/17/oaksterdam-legalization-medicine-technology-marijuana_slide_12.html

also mentions the Broadus Effect...

It is difficult to say what the proposition's chances are in the Nov. 2 vote. The ballot-betting website Intrade puts the odds at about 60-40 against, but that is on relatively small volume. In opinion polls the race is much tighter, though still against it, if a person is asking the question. In automated polls the measure passes overwhelmingly, leading organizers to conclude that the winning swing vote is people who say one thing in public, and vote another way when alone in the ballot booth.

[Warpy]

8. If it's ever on the ballot here in NM, I'll vote a resounding yes

Honestly, it's time. Anslinger's racism has done nothing but demonize one of the more useful plants out there, enriching gangs and black marketeers, and allowing right wing thugs to chip away at civil rights in the name of saving us from ourselves.

Making adult behavior illegal is a losing battle. It just makes the behavior more popular. Trying to create a heavy on earth by eliminating sin only creates a hell of heavy handed repression and general disrespect for even the good law.

Enough, already.

[RainDog]

9. medical marijuana has support of over 70% of the American population

and has for years.

it's time for change. Hemp industries can also create a lot of jobs - including producing fuel.

[LaPera]

10. Rolling Stone - forefront with another great article...they just keep on "rolling" them....

[CreekDog]

12. John Burton was a goofy pol with great policies and strong conviction

I got to meet him a little while back, unfortunately, I didn't appreciate him at the time.

[Greyhound]

13. This could make an otherwise dismal election interesting. n/t

[leftstreet]

14. K&R

Very interesting articles, both of them.

Thanks for posting!

[Shining Jack]

16. Kickin' and Rec

I totally agree.

[RainDog]

17. kickety! n/t