Pot's surprising supporters - "Soccer moms" would back legalization over safety concerns (Calif)

[Kadie]

Bid to legalize pot is counter to U.S. trend
Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Staff Writer

Tuesday, January 5, 2010


With Californians likely to vote in November on whether to legalize marijuana, some key swing voters - Democratic and independent women - are expressing a surprising reason why they would support the initiative.

The suburban "soccer moms" who are likely voters have told pollsters that the measure, which would give local governments the authority to tax and regulate the sale of cannabis to adults 21 or older, would provide a safer way for their adult children to buy pot.

"One of the scary things to some people is that their kids may be buying it from someone dangerous," said Ruth Bernstein, a pollster with EMC Research, an Oakland firm that has been doing polling and focus groups on behalf of the measure's proponents.


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1. When the drug warriors lose the soccer moms, it's all over.

Their reasoning is very sound. Prohibition is the problem, not the solution.

[Kadie]

4. Moms looking out for their kids well being,

hard to fight that.

[voteearlyvoteoften]

2. We also don't want our children arrested for possessing a joint.

Or whatever they are calling it these days. In Florida they love to run up arrest stats by keeping us safe
from potheads. Easier to get than the mean hard drug users.

[DCKit]

3. Not only easier, but far safer for the drug warriors.

Real criminals have real guns, as well as the disposition to use them.