{"id":8144,"date":"2018-03-19T20:35:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T20:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/?p=14019"},"modified":"2018-03-19T20:35:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T20:35:28","slug":"majority-now-support-marijuana-legalization-in-both-united-states-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/majority-now-support-marijuana-legalization-in-both-united-states-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority Now Support Marijuana Legalization In Both United States &amp; Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/majority-now-support-marijuana-legalization-in-both-united-states-canada\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Marijuana legalization is at the forefront of debate not just in the United States of America, but in all other NAFTA countries as well.\u00a0 Canada and Mexico seem to be in the cusp of legalizing marijuana, but what about the US?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe polls suggest, and closer than I suspected, but both [Canada and the US] support marijuana legalization,\u201d said Emerson College Professor Spencer Kimball on the Emerson College Polling Weekly Podcast.<\/p>\n<p>The issue may come down to the federal level, which brings Donald Trump and his administration to the center of the stage.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the summer, White House Attorney General Jeff Sessions came down hard on the potential of marijuana being legalized in any capacity in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>However, as Kimball pointed out on the latest Emerson College Polling Weekly Podcast, a sizable portion of a key voting bloc for Trump may very well could hold opinions not in line with the Attorney General, as well as fellow Trump supporters and voters.<\/p>\n<p>And suffice it to say, President Trump himself is going to need all the support he can get in 2018 and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt explains why the Trump Administration is on the fence of what to do.\u00a0 Currently Jeff Sessions is opposed to marijuana legalization but as we\u2019ve seen, that can all change on a dime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe movement is towards the legalization of marijuana in the United States.\u00a0 But politically it might not be there because we\u2019re talking about older voters and the President\u2019s base voters and those two would be antagonized towards the legalization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All the momentum seems to be on the side of some form of marijuana legalization, so what will the Trump Administration do?<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/420-news\/international-cannabis-news\/majority-now-support-marijuana-legalization-in-both-united-states-canada\/\">Majority Now Support Marijuana Legalization In Both United States &#038; Canada<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\">420 MAGAZINE \u00ae<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marijuana legalization is at the forefront of debate not just in the United States of America, but in all other NAFTA countries as well.\u00a0 Canada and Mexico seem to be in the cusp of legalizing marijuana, but what about the US? \u201cThe polls suggest, and closer than I suspected, but both [Canada and the US] [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/420-news\/international-cannabis-news\/majority-now-support-marijuana-legalization-in-both-united-states-canada\/\">Majority Now Support Marijuana Legalization In Both United States &#038; Canada<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\">420 MAGAZINE \u00ae<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1616,9,1,3],"tags":[4184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}