Democratic Party platform didn't quite say "Legalize It" but came close

[TonyPDX]

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Imagine the uproar from Oklahoma and Nebraska, Alabama and Mississippi if the Federal government "shoved cannabis down their throats" (conjures an interesting image, though). Like it or not, state acceptance of legal cannabis remains very controversial in many places (even in pockets of Oregon, Colorado, Washington & Alaska) and the very difficult work of achieving legalization must happen step-by-step at the state level.

Reasonable people everywhere will eventually see the folly of prohibition, but decades of reefer madness will have to be unwound first. The cultural and economic repercussions of legalization are not trivial, and for acceptance to occur, citizens cannot be made to believe the changes are being forced upon them. They have to come from folks they know and respect.