What Bill Maher (And Most Politicians) Don’t Get About Marijuana
Comedian Bill Maher has been an outspoken supporter of legalizing marijuana for a long time. In addition to serving on the advisory board for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), Maher regularly gets politicians and celebrities on the record about the issue on his HBO show, “Real Time.”
That’s why it’s especially disappointing that Maher doesn’t seem to understand the fact that marijuana reform is a mainstream, majority-supported issue in the U.S.
In his new HBO comedy special, “Live from D.C.,” which first aired last Friday, Maher said:
“A third of the country has medical marijuana. America’s changing. Two states have regular old roll up a fatty and watch SpongeBob marijuana. I’m telling you, it’s a new dawn of some kind. … I just hope that Democrats will evolve on the pot issue as quickly as they did on the gay marriage issue. Which is to say not very quickly at all. But as soon as gay marriage hit 51 percent approval in the polls, there was a lot of evolving.”
In reality, marijuana not only already has consistent majority support in national surveys, but actually polls as well as or better than marriage equality does in many cases:
| Polling Firm | Marriage Support | Legal Marijuana Support |
| Gallup | 55% – May 2014 | 58% – October 2013 |
| Pew | 54% – February 2014 | 54% – April 2014 |
| CNN | 55% – June 2013 | 55% – January 2014 |
| NBC | 53% – April 2013 | 55% – January 2014 |
Maher’s not the only one who doesn’t seem to grasp the new politics of marijuana, though. Most national Democrats don’t seem to get it either.
Democratic U.S. senators and governors have rushed to endorse marriage equality, as Maher noted, and some national Republicans are even on board. Compare that to the grand total of zero out of 50 governors and one out of 100 U.S. senators who have endorsed the legalization of marijuana.
Source: http://truthisscary.com/2014/09/what-bill-maher-and-most-politicians-dont-get-about-marijuana/
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