Phawker: Marijuana Legalization Actually More Popular than the GOP
Pot is more popular than Republicans:
The first poll, conducted last week by Rasmussen Reports, has 40 percent of Americans in support of legalizing the drug and 46 percent opposed. The second, conducted in January by CBS News, has 41 percent in favor of legalization and 52 percent against. And a third poll, conducted by Zogby on behalf of the marijuana-rights advocacy group NORML, has 44 percent of Americans in support of legalized pot and 52 percent opposed.
here’s a helpful chart:
Now maybe i’m just a crazy liberal, but it’s pretty easy to see that pulling a few bongloads is way more popular than any of these people. And for your reference:
John “Spray-tan” Boehner
Crazy pothead
Even if you don’t smoke weed, the fat guy with the wheelbarrow looks like a barrel of laughs. Advantage: potheads.
Mitch “orville redenbacher” McConnell represents Kentucky one of the leading cannabis producers in the US
A naked hippy chick, who probably has a big bag of weed under her headband.
Even if you don’t smoke weed, the hippy chick is more fun. Plus, she’s naked. What, you’re gay and don’t care for naked ladies? OK, well what if i told you Mitch McConnell is a self-loathing closet case who hates you as much as he hates himself?
Advantage: naked pot-smoking hippy chick.
Obese oxy-contin addict with a sex tourism problem?
or
Physically fit world champion Olympic swimmer?
Advantage: pot smoking athlete.
Mean drunk responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent people in Iraq and who let 9/11 happen on his watch and who did nothing while New Orleans drowned and who shredded the constitution to spy on you and who federalized the country’s public schools and who presided over the collapse of the US economy (for starters)?
Or a nugget of kind bud, which helps you to kinda sorta forget all the shit that bush is responsible for?
i think the advantage there is clear, but in case you’re high, the kind bud wins.
As for the Congressional republicans, I’m not even going to bother finding a group shot of that gallery of rogues: i’ll just point out it has included folks like Rick “man-on-dog-and-oh-yeah-I’m-ripping-off-a-PA-school-district” Santorum; Larry “I am not gayI just have a wide stance” Craig; Norm “I don’t live with my wife i wonder why” Colemen; David “I am so NOT closeted so stop saying that” (NSFW) Dreier; Mark “where the boys are” Foley; David “diapers” Vitter; and John “That One! That one!” McCain, among others.
Deadheads and Phish heads may hit you up for that miracle ticket, and may crash on your couch for a few weeks too many, but at least they don’t send your kids to Iraq to die, destroy the economy, put your folks in the poorhouse, and laugh gleefully while a major American city is destroyed by floods.
Final Score: Pot 100%, Republicans bupkes.
Let’s legalize the shit already and start taxing it.
February 24th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
I guess if they legalized it they would miss out on all of the profits from the underhanded deals with the drug lords, and money laundering in off-shore tax shelters. I wonder how much hooch money was between the lines of the Colombia free trade crapolla that Bush was so anxious to sign before he left office. Surely there was a little tiny understanding, somewhere in there. A wink, and a nod. A wheel, and a deal.
Drugs, and money laundering off-shore tax shelters. What’s a pot head to do? damn.