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When will Biden realize that liberals won the marijuana debate?

You can put the genesis of the American culture war about as far back as you want: to the Civil War, or to pretty much the first time White people set foot in this land. But most directly, it dates to the tumult of the 1960s.

On one side were the hippies, listening to rock music and getting high and having sex, while on the other side were the squares, grinding their teeth in rage. In so many ways we’re still fighting the same battles we did then.

A half-century later, there’s no doubt which side’s ideas have prevailed. Yet on one question — marijuana legalization — even though the left has most assuredly won, the Biden administration seems in no hurry to acknowledge it.

On Tuesday, Gov. Ned Lamont (D) signed a bill making Connecticut the 19th state to legalize cannabis for recreational use. Perhaps more significant is the number 11, which is the number of states that have yet to legalize even medical marijuana. It’s a small number getting even smaller.

For an issue that is the subject of voter initiatives, bills in state legislatures and plenty of discussion on the state level, among national politicians, there’s a strange quiet. Republicans know their opposition to legalization puts them on the wrong side of the public, even in more conservative states. And many Democrats don’t much seem to want to talk about it either. [Read More @ The Washington Post]

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