Marijuana Issue Reaches Tipping Point
May 7th, 2009 by Rick
There are some advocates out there that believe we’ve reached a “tipping point” with overturning the current cannabis laws. Despite the same rhetoric from government officials on the war on drugs, it does feel like there is a change in the air in regards to marijuana. After all, more and more television shows and feature movies are becoming more and more popular.
Keith Stroup, founder of NORML, the organization that fights for marijuana legalization, sees a tipping point. He refers to a 2002 Time/CNN poll:
There’s some data out there that shows 47 percent of Americans have smoked marijuana at some point in their life. [...] That was five years ago, and that means there are likely more living Americans today who have smoked than have not. That tells me that we are very close to a tipping point on this issue.
NORML even took the opportunity to unleash their pro-marijuana TV ad on all the news networks and some others. The ad seems to be targeting those in Washington that need some reassurance that this is what the people want and how it would overall benefit us.
The commercial says:
You can tax it, you can regulate it, apply age restrictions… create millions of new jobs… save our economy.
According to an article at the NORML Blog:
According to numerous survey and polls, approximately 75% of Americans support medical access to cannabis; 73% favor decriminalizing cannabis possession for adults and 42% of Americans support legalizing cannabis.
America, isn’t it time for a serious, unbiased look at this plant and drug, whether it’s used for medication or recreation?
