Oregon, Alaska, and DC have voted to end marijuana prohibition

[memphis]

I'm surprised nobody has started a thread about this. Good to see reasonable position prevailing in a few places.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/05/us-usa-elections-marijuana-idUSKBN0IP1EB20141105

[King]

Minimum wage referendums also passed everywhere.

If the Democrats had any interest in campaigning on issues in 2014, they might have had something.

[Sbane]

Florida was painful. Medical Marijuana missing 60% by a small margin and the criminal being re-elected by another thin margin. Joke state.

[Boris]

It's kind of lame that DC didn't incorporate retail sales. Imagine head shops appearing next to the DEA headquarters!

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Americans voted for higher minimum wage, marijuana legalization, expanded access to abortion, gay marriage and the Republican Party.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Will congress put the kibosh on legal marijuana in their backyard? They have that power right?

[AggregateDemand]

I'm really happy to see that legalization passed in Oregon, Alaska, and DC; but marijuana is a vice industry, and the success or failure of the policy is tied to the details within the regulation.

DC played it safe, which will help prevent the corporate exploitation of consumers and the costly civil litigation associated with corporate exploitation. However, the black market in DC will boom. The retail store provisions in OR and AK, could work well, but I'm not sure I understand all of the rules.

I hope most of all, no one repeats the CO edible marijuana problem. Mixing commercialized processed sugary confections with marijuana capitalism is not the best idea.

[AggregateDemand]

Americans voted for higher minimum wage, marijuana legalization, expanded access to abortion, gay marriage and the Republican Party.

What does that tell you about people who vote Republican? The straw man is falling to pieces.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Freedom States & Freedom District

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Americans voted for higher minimum wage, marijuana legalization, expanded access to abortion, gay marriage and the Republican Party.

One of these things is not like the others
One of these things just doesn't belong
Can you tell which thing is not like the other
By the time I finish my song?

[Person Man]

Maybe there is just a desire to have Jodi Ernst make Congress "squeal like a pig". Not my words. Hers.

[All Along The Watchtower]

If the Democrats had any interest in campaigning on issues in 2014, they might have had something.

Maybe they should all run as Republicans without actually changing their issue positions.

[publicunofficial]

Americans voters are pro-choice, pro-minimum wage, pro background check, and pro-marijuana.

Most of the Democratic Senators running last night supported one or less than one of these things.

[IceSpear]

Americans voted for higher minimum wage, marijuana legalization, expanded access to abortion, gay marriage and the Republican Party.

It truly boggles the mind. It seems people vote based more on a team sports mentality or how they were raised as opposed to their actual beliefs.

[H. Ross Peron]

Americans voted for higher minimum wage, marijuana legalization, expanded access to abortion, gay marriage and the Republican Party.

What does that tell you about people who vote Republican? The straw man is falling to pieces.

That they should vote for the party they agree with the issues on.

[dead0man]

Americans voters are pro-choice, pro-minimum wage, pro background check, and pro-marijuana.

Most of the Democratic Senators running last night supported one or less than one of these things.

The two posters after you understand this about as well as the running Democratic Senators did/do.

[Goldwater]

Freedom States & Freedom District

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Florida was painful. Medical Marijuana missing 60% by a small margin and the criminal being re-elected by another thin margin. Joke state.

When it comes to medical marijuana, in more ways than one.   I wonder what the age graph breakdown would be here - probably highest support among under 40 and octogenarians.

Americans voted for higher minimum wage, marijuana legalization, expanded access to abortion, gay marriage and the Republican Party.

Where was expanded access to abortion on the ballot?

[Sbane]

Florida was painful. Medical Marijuana missing 60% by a small margin and the criminal being re-elected by another thin margin. Joke state.

When it comes to medical marijuana, in more ways than one.   I wonder what the age graph breakdown would be here - probably highest support among under 40 and octogenarians.

Americans voted for higher minimum wage, marijuana legalization, expanded access to abortion, gay marriage and the Republican Party.

Where was expanded access to abortion on the ballot?

You would think that a state that has been impacted most heavily by opiate drug abuse, you would think they would be in favor of medical marijuana. There is data showing less opiate abuse in states with medical marijuana.

[TDAS04]

Freedom States & Freedom District

[Ebowed]

How do 42% of Floridians oppose medical marijuana?  Isn't that number usually closer to 15 or 20% in polling?

[publicunofficial]

How do 42% of Floridians oppose medical marijuana?  Isn't that number usually closer to 15 or 20% in polling?

People say they're okay with it when polled, but when given the chance to vote against it they will. This also happens to civil unions, which polls extremely high even in red states, but will still fail at the ballot box. Saying you'd be okay with something and directly supporting it are two different things.

[AkSaber]

In case anyone wanted to see how the Alaska voted.

http://www.ktuu.com/news/news/legalizing-marijuana-mapping-the-election-results/29532978

[Sol]

Does anyone know where there are precinct maps of DC's marijuana referendum? That could be interesting.

[Nutmeg]

Does anyone know where there are precinct maps of DC's marijuana referendum? That could be interesting.

http://electionmap.wamu.org/

Won every precinct except one, where it lost by 9 votes.