Two polls show support for legal marijuana waning in Colorado, nationaly

buckaroo bonzai

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Hay buckaroo, did you look up those people that did the polls? Do you know if they have a biased point of view? Are they even credible?

Here ya go-

Marijuana Poll Showing Unhappiness Over Legalization Embraced by Anti-Pot Activists

Sep. 23 2014

As we've noted, poll results are notoriously fluid on plenty of topics. But that doesn't stop partisans from championing those they like, even when they're contradicted by others.


Case in point: Anti-pot activists have embraced a survey showing that the majority of Coloradans are unhappy with marijuana legalization even though other analyses find exactly the opposite.

See also: Marijuana Membership Clubs Supported by Two-Thirds of Respondents in New Poll

launch of Project SAM.The latest poll to address this issue comes from Suffolk University. The results are synopsized like so:Colorado voters may be having second thoughts about the legalization of marijuana. A slight majority of voters (50.2 percent) say they do not agree with the decision to legalize recreational marijuana in that state -- a decision made by voters in 2012 -- while 46 percent continue to support the decision. Nearly 49 percent do not approve of how the state is managing legalized pot, compared to 42 percent who approve.Approximately four seconds after these results were made public, the folks from Project SAM, a group that opposes cannabis legalization, weighed in.


"We have always believed that when voters were given the facts about marijuana, the marijuana industry, and the failings of commercialization, they would oppose legalization," Colorado SAM chairman Bob Doyle said in a statement. "It is unfortunate Colorado has been the lab rat of the marijuana industry, but we're confident legalization will only be temporary as opposition to legalization grows and our education of people across the state increases."



Photo by Sam Levin
Kevin Sabet, left, with former U.S. Representative Patrick Kennedy at the aforementioned 2013Project SAM press conference.
Added Kevin Sabet, Project SAM's president: "The theory of legalization looks a lot prettier than the policy in practice. Revenue numbers are low, the underground market is thriving, and health issues are mounting. And, it appears, the public is paying attention."


Problem is, other surveys contradict the Suffolk findings. A Quinnipiac University poll from July put support of legalization at 54-43 percent -- although QU notes that these figures were down from February, when the pro-legalization percentage measured at 58-39.

A Marist poll from this month is very much in line with the Quinnipiac data. An excerpt:

A majority of Colorado residents, 55 percent, is for Colorado's new marijuana law which allows the legalization of small amounts of the drug purchased from regulated businesses. Among these Coloradans, 27 percent actively support the law, and 28 percent favor the legislation but do not actively do so. In contrast, 41 percent oppose the law. This includes 8 percent who are actively trying to overturn the legislation.Shockingly enough, we couldn't find any quotes from Doyle or Sabet either celebrating or pillorying these figures. But that's no surprise, since advocates in most fields tend to keep mum about surveys until they find one that reinforces what they believe.



 

Dr.Pecker

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Here ya go-

Marijuana Poll Showing Unhappiness Over Legalization Embraced by Anti-Pot Activists

Sep. 23 2014

As we've noted, poll results are notoriously fluid on plenty of topics. But that doesn't stop partisans from championing those they like, even when they're contradicted by others.


Case in point: Anti-pot activists have embraced a survey showing that the majority of Coloradans are unhappy with marijuana legalization even though other analyses find exactly the opposite.

See also: Marijuana Membership Clubs Supported by Two-Thirds of Respondents in New Poll

launch of Project SAM.The latest poll to address this issue comes from Suffolk University. The results are synopsized like so:Colorado voters may be having second thoughts about the legalization of marijuana. A slight majority of voters (50.2 percent) say they do not agree with the decision to legalize recreational marijuana in that state -- a decision made by voters in 2012 -- while 46 percent continue to support the decision. Nearly 49 percent do not approve of how the state is managing legalized pot, compared to 42 percent who approve.Approximately four seconds after these results were made public, the folks from Project SAM, a group that opposes cannabis legalization, weighed in.


"We have always believed that when voters were given the facts about marijuana, the marijuana industry, and the failings of commercialization, they would oppose legalization," Colorado SAM chairman Bob Doyle said in a statement. "It is unfortunate Colorado has been the lab rat of the marijuana industry, but we're confident legalization will only be temporary as opposition to legalization grows and our education of people across the state increases."



Photo by Sam Levin
Kevin Sabet, left, with former U.S. Representative Patrick Kennedy at the aforementioned 2013Project SAM press conference.
Added Kevin Sabet, Project SAM's president: "The theory of legalization looks a lot prettier than the policy in practice. Revenue numbers are low, the underground market is thriving, and health issues are mounting. And, it appears, the public is paying attention."


Problem is, other surveys contradict the Suffolk findings. A Quinnipiac University poll from July put support of legalization at 54-43 percent -- although QU notes that these figures were down from February, when the pro-legalization percentage measured at 58-39.

A Marist poll from this month is very much in line with the Quinnipiac data. An excerpt:

A majority of Colorado residents, 55 percent, is for Colorado's new marijuana law which allows the legalization of small amounts of the drug purchased from regulated businesses. Among these Coloradans, 27 percent actively support the law, and 28 percent favor the legislation but do not actively do so. In contrast, 41 percent oppose the law. This includes 8 percent who are actively trying to overturn the legislation.Shockingly enough, we couldn't find any quotes from Doyle or Sabet either celebrating or pillorying these figures. But that's no surprise, since advocates in most fields tend to keep mum about surveys until they find one that reinforces what they believe.



Exactly these guys refuse to read any of 20000 articles published in the past decade.
 

Skylor

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Yeah I'm happy also to live in a MM state of the USA, life can be pretty good at times. As for booze, I stop that bad habit back in 1990--it was a new decade so I decided to go drug free for most the year and get off to a fresh start in life...all voluntarily...I came this,close to getting a DUI a few months back...I blew a .07 so the cop wrote me up for 10 over when I I was only going 3 over with an order to get back into my car--which I did since I had bud on me too, lol. (today the cop still could have took me in for DUI, the law was different in the 80's)

Well after drying out for like 8 months straight, I started to ease back into weed and alcohol once again but every time I drank, I started feeling dizzy and if I kept drinking, I would get sleepy. Weed however was fine, no really bad side effects, so I decided thats it, no more drinking for me, that was over 25 years ago. Today I'm in pretty good health and use only one drug, MM.

Maybe life would totally stink if I did not have MM, who knows ? Maybe I been a pill addict and then moved on to heroin and now I be in rehab trying to straighten out ? Maybe if I lived in the Middle East, I would have been killed for speaking out against the country ? We take free speech for granted here in the USA
 

tstick

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LOL! It's even more fucked up in Washington. The retail shops are open, but none of them have any weed! If they do get the weed in, it's $35 a gram out the door!

No home growing unless you have a medical card….

And medical is (supposedly) going away after June, 2015.

So, it looks like the black market will be back in business soon.
 

tstick

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I'm not much for the public displays -like crowding together in giant clouds of smoke and whooping it up. But I don't see any difference between a Hempfest and an Oktoberfest, at the core. It's condoned to get shit-faced, falling-down drunk and every news report about Oktoberfest is kind of friendly and cartoonish with everyone shown as having great fun from drinking too much beer. So, if someone wants to roll a gigantic reefer at a cannabis-centric festival and then encourage people to dance around it like heathens, then what's the difference? -besides less traffic accidents because smokers know better than to drive when they are too high and drunks don't.
 

st0wandgrow

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I'm not much for the public displays -like crowding together in giant clouds of smoke and whooping it up. But I don't see any difference between a Hempfest and an Oktoberfest, at the core. It's condoned to get shit-faced, falling-down drunk and every news report about Oktoberfest is kind of friendly and cartoonish with everyone shown as having great fun from drinking too much beer. So, if someone wants to roll a gigantic reefer at a cannabis-centric festival and then encourage people to dance around it like heathens, then what's the difference? -besides less traffic accidents because smokers know better than to drive when they are too high and drunks don't.
This too will be socially acceptable just as soon as corporate America figures out how to cash in on it.

Hang tight.....
 

jonnynobody

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This too will be socially acceptable just as soon as corporate America figures out how to cash in on it.

Hang tight.....
Only our celebrations will result in less domestic violence and highway fatalities. I only hope I live to see how the history books retell this story of mass ignorance.
 
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