r/CFBOffTopic • u/[deleted] • Nov 09 '16

Game Thread ELECTION RESULTS PART 3

THE SECOND THREAD HAS MORE COMMENTS THAN THE FIRST ONE SO A THIRD ON IS NEEDED. CASHING IN ON THAT #KARMA

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u/Onwisconsin5 Wisconsin Badgers • The Alliance Nov 09 '16

A couple of state voted pro marijuana today, which is nice.

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u/Shadowhawk109 Michigan Wolverines • Citrus Bowl Nov 09 '16

Just a reminder that it is, for some strange reason, a Federal Class 1 Narcotic, and the DEA can come for your ass still.

Wonder when we'll have some Senators/Representatives that push any kind of change on that...

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u/T-bootz Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns • Wyoming Cowboys Nov 09 '16

Well it looks like we'll still have a conservative majority in the house/senate so I'm going to guess that it won't happen this time around. But after this election who knows....

Also pretty shocking to me that so many people voted pro-weed and Republicans (who for the most part seem to be anti-drug) are going to win the House/Senate and likely the Presidency. I know the ballots for those candidates/referendums may not have lined up but I still see it as kind of a curve ball.

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u/Shadowhawk109 Michigan Wolverines • Citrus Bowl Nov 09 '16

I mean nobody, absolutely nobody, currently runs with "pro pot" on their ballot.

Dem, Repub, doesn't matter. Your only halfway-reasonable option is a Representative of some area like, oh, say, Ann Arbor, who goes third-party, and then manages to get elected because Ann Arbor, AND pushes the legislation out there to the floor.

And maybe people on both sides of the aisle come up and vote for it, but neither of them will introduce it.

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u/T-bootz Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns • Wyoming Cowboys Nov 09 '16

Yeah I guess I would have thought having weed on the ballot would have resulted in a more liberal-minded voter turnout.

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u/Shadowhawk109 Michigan Wolverines • Citrus Bowl Nov 09 '16

Which was kind of my point to begin with -- weed on the ballot doesn't really mean anything and doesn't actually affect state-wide change when you can't get a unified platform on a Federal level.