“Cannabis consumers as a group do not have a political party preference that differs from the general electorate.”
By Andrew Graham, NuggMD
The persistent assumption that cannabis consumers are not sufficiently loyal to the Republican Party has always stood in the way of progress, to one degree or another, in the fight to end prohibition.
With Republicans in unified control of the government and an executive order to complete the process of rescheduling the plant in force, that assumption affects how audiences who are not necessarily in tune with the culture think and act with respect to cannabis policy. Cannabis consumers are the main stakeholders in any change to the legality of the plant. Whether they favor or disfavor the people in power is an obvious factor in what happens next.
That is why it’s worth zooming in fully on whether that persistent assumption is true, and if so, to what degree.
As it turns out, the notion that cannabis consumers are predisposed as a group to vote a certain way is flat-out wrong. The data says cannabis consumers as a voting bloc have the same partisan composition as the general electorate. The bloc does not favor Democrats, “liberals” or
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