Despite living in 1 of the most populous states in the country with a sizable diversity of opinion, the people here can be severely stubborn.
You might guess that you can get public opinion behind a popular issue, however then you see the voter apathy unleash itself whenever 1 of those complications is put on the ballot.
All of us don’t have enough voter turnout in the first location, plus of the 1s that do show up for elections, there isn’t enough diversity in social demographics plus ideological commitments. That’s why it’s so hard to get a movement going behind a large 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 day will ever come when the federal government removes cannabis from the controlled substances act plus opens the floodgates to marijuana being legal all over the nation. While I’m surprised on 1 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 plus 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 party. That will be the tploy test if anyone is willing to stick their neck out for the rights of cannabis users. I’m sick of the issue kneeling on the sidelines within the national political discourse.