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Green tea party: will Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin or other professed liberty lovers support ending pot prohibition in California?

By Douglas A. Berman

This piece from the Los Angeles Times, which is headlined "California voters back pot legalization, but support is shaky," provides some very interesting data on very early polling concerning the marijuana ballot initiative to be decided by California voters this November.  Here are some excerpts from the article, after which I will explain the reason for the question in the title of this post: California voters, by a modest margin, think they should be allowed to grow and consume marijuana, according to a new poll that also found more than 1 in 3 voters had tried pot and more than 1 in 10 had lit up in the past year. The Los Angeles Times/USC poll [full details and results here] found that voters back the marijuana legalization measure on the November ballot, 49% to 41%, with 10% uncertain about it...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 02, 2010 (boomark / email).