It certainly is a strange dynamic as a social currency. Groups that don't like weed are typically right leaning so to get marijuana where it isn't legal, you have to be in with left leaning crowds or at least tolerant of them. So then as a state legalizes marijuana it attracts a left leaning crowd. If there were a right leaning 'federal narcotics scheduling is unconstitutional and the free market will provide a quality product' access to marijuana dynamic then you might see a red shift after legalization.
It certainly is a strange dynamic as a social currency. Groups that don't like weed are typically right leaning so to get marijuana where it isn't legal, you have to be in with left leaning crowds or at least tolerant of them. So then as a state legalizes marijuana it attracts a left leaning crowd. If there were a right leaning 'federal narcotics scheduling is unconstitutional and the free market will provide a quality product' access to marijuana dynamic then you might see a red shift after legalization.
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