Despite living in a single of the most populous states in the country with a immense diversity of opinion, the people here can be extremely stubborn. You might assume that you can get public opinion behind a popular issue, but then you see the voter apathy unleash itself whenever a single of those complications is put on the ballot. We don’t have enough voter turnout in the first site, as well as of the a singles that do show up for elections, there isn’t enough diversity in social demographics as well as ideological commitments. That’s why it’s so taxing to get a movement going behind a sizable political change, especially if it’s against the grain of the political majority in this state. While a sizable number of people supported our constitutional amendment legalizing medical cannabis, every one of us haven’t been successful with recreational marijuana. I wonder if the morning will ever come when the federal government detachs cannabis from the controlled substances act as well as opens the floodgates to marijuana being legal all over the nation. While I’m surprised on a single hand that every one of us still don’t have recreational cannabis in this state, I’m also less than surprised when I remember what state I live in as well as how the people are who live here. It could take years before every one of us see a law legalizing recreational cannabis get approved by the voters themselves. The state legislature is surely not going to do it themselves, at least not until they’re replaced with members of the opposing political celebration. That will be the true test if anyone is willing to stick their neck out for the rights of cannabis users. I’m sick of the issue resting on the sidelines within the national political discourse.