46% for Pot Legalization

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11/03/2010Jeffrey A. Tucker

Many people are wondering why California didn’t vote for legalized pot, but consider that 46% is pretty darn great for a measure that flatly contradicted federal policy for decades, and a great blow against a policy that surely will not last.

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Jeffrey Tucker is Editorial Director of the American Institute for Economic Research. He is author of It's a Jetsons World: Private Miracles and Public Crimes and Bourbon for Breakfast: Living Outside the Statist Quo. Send him mail.

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