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Good News: Pennsylvanians like pot (so long as it's medicinal)
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Good News: Pennsylvanians like pot (so long as it's medicinal)
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| Courtesy of the Pennsylvania House |
| Rep. Mark Cohen |
Yes, it's cool and all that state Rep. Mark Cohen (D-Philadelphia) introduced a bill back in April '09 to legalize medical marijuana. (It's cool, as well, that state Senator Daylin Leach (D-Montgomery) introduced a matching bill in the Senate this May.) But both bills are stalled in committee … and what chance do they have of ever getting out, in this conservative bizarro old-people land known as Pennsylvania?
More than you might think, it turns out. According to a recent Franklin & Marshall poll, 80 percent of voters favor medical marijuana. 80 percent! Do you know how many people in Pennsylvania are old as shit? That's a lot of old people saying medical marijuana is OK by them. Pretty encouraging.
Terry Madonna and Berwood Yost, of F&M, call this proportion "striking."
"Just about every demographic group supports the use of medical marijuana, but the likelihood of supporting it is higher among women than men, among liberals and moderates than conservatives, and among those who do not consider themselves born-again Christians," wrote Madonna and Yost in a press release.
Even more interesting: Although four in five Pennsylvanians support medical weed, only one in three — or 33 percent — support complete legalization. Still, that's up from 22 percent two years ago.
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