Making discussion using the correct talking points is absolutely key whenever you want to talk someone over. Using conservative ideas against them to make them change their mind is perfect and exactly the type of attitude that we need. Having said that, never tried weed, not so big on the issue either...
I laughed when I read this part though: "marijuana activists"
Is it really that big an issue? It's legal in my state so maybe I'm just out of touch with it, but is it really so big a deal that there are activists? Learn something new every day.
I don't think it's as big of an issue as it should be. I don't think people should be threatened with jail for putting something into their body. I, admittedly, have a personal stake in this issue but the principal is more important to me. We claim to be free in the U.S. but blindly accept this huge trespass on that freedom because that's the way things have been for most of living memory.
Public opinion is already there for the most part, in the sense that most people (left or right) don't care who gets high but few are willing to put forth any effort to fix our broken system because they don't partake themselves, or they live in a legal state, or what have you. What I advocate is trying to bring some of those people on board to actively push for change. If a large enough number of these passive supporters become active things will move much faster and I believe that we can find a lot of previously untapped support in conservative communities.
Sadly, the way things are politically, I think its unlikely to see this type of thing happen on a large scale. People on the left at the moment have become less accepting of compromise as the SJW movement has taken more power in liberal circles. The biggest reason I don't like them is they care more about maintaining the integrity of the ideology than responding to reality by working with their opponents to find solutions that actually bring progress for everybody. This, however, is a different rant for a different post so I'll stop before I go on too long about this.
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