Guessing the Last State to Legalize
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One of the easiest trends to analyze is whether the state votes blue or red. Over the last four presidential elections there are:
16 that the Democrats won every presidential election
22 that the Republicans won every presidential election
This leaves 12 states somewhere in the middle.
7 that the Democrats won 3 out of 4 presidential elections
2 that the Republicans won 3 out of 4 presidential elections
3 that have voted Democrat and Republican 50/50
Of the 16 blue states, 7 have legalized recreational cannabis, or almost 44%. These states are Washington, Oregon, California, Illinois, Vermont, Massachusetts and Maine.
Of the 22 red states, just 1 has legalized recreational cannabis. Alaska is currently the only “red” state to have legalized recreational cannabis, making up less than 5% of the group.
The other two states with legal recreational cannabis are Colorado and Nevada, who have voted democrat 3 out of the last 4 elections.
It’s hard to argue that the above trend between legalization and political preferences doesn’t exist. But what about Alaska? Alaska is one of only two states not directly connected to mainland United States. Another factor could be that it is landlocked on one side by Canada, the second country in the world to fully legalize recreational cannabis.
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Louisiana will be the last.
They have legal medical cannabis already so we ruled them out early. But if they didn't, they would've been one of the last to be crossed out
Holy fucking shit! I did not know that. I am shocked. Louisiana is such a backwards ass state when it comes to cannabis. Great to see that is changing.
Legalization is the most repressive and backwards type of cannabis law, so it should be no surprise that it is done in the most backwards states. Decriminalization is freedom. Legalization is the opposite.
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Texas
Texas will be last. It's sad because there are things I love about that state but I think it will be a while before they get their shit together with weed.
The problem is that its constitution does not allow for ballot initiatives and the state legislature is about 20 behind public. The sitting governor, while still serving as attorney general, went to court to argue for maintaining a prohibition on dildos, if that tells you anything.
I didn't know that about the dildos haha! I can definitely see Texas turning blue in the years to come, but there's a lot of other reasons why it'd stay illegal there too!
legalization is slavery and corporate fascism, so whatever state has the most freedom will be the last to "legalize"