NIT – Iowa voters are divided 47 – 47 percent on whether they support legalized recreational use of marijuana, according to a Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll released today. There is almost no gender gap. Support is 62 – 32 percent among Democrats, while Republicans are opposed 64 – 30 percent. Independent voters are divided with 49 percent in favor and 46 percent opposed.
Support for personal use of marijuana is 62 – 32 percent among voters 18 to 34 years old, while voters 35 to 54 years old are divided 47 – 47 percent and voters over 55 years old are opposed 53 – 41 percent.
Only 12 percent of Iowa voters say they definitely or probably would use marijuana if it were legal.
Voters support 87 – 11 percent the legalization of marijuana for medical use.
Iowa voters approve 67 – 21 percent of the job U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley is doing and say 53 – 34 percent he deserves reelection. U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst gets a 48 – 27 percent approval rating.
Gov. Terry Branstad enjoys a 53 – 36 percent approval rating at this time.
ALL drugs should be legal. Prohibition of drugs has been proven to do no good and curtailing their use and only creates crime. If people want to put substances in their bodies they are going to, and it doesn’t hurt anyone but themselves. Legalizing drugs won’t fix the drug problem, it will always be there. Humans love drugs. Legalizing removes the criminal element and and removes their revenue, putting it in the hands of taxpayers. Treat addiction like a disease rather than crime.
This has to be the dumbest thing you have ever posted Marty. Go away and stay away.
Name is not Marty you dolt.
yes it is Marty. We know who you are, where you live and most of all that you are a lying idiot.
Nope, not Marty. Just like this you’re wrong about everything else. And I’ll pop in whenever I feel like it to disrupt your little NIT circle jerk with some real thought. You are a sad and scared individual LVS. It’s laughable that you continue to believe I’m “Marty”. Real class act you’ve got going here MM.
Keep on trying to deny it Marty. It is what you are good at. FOOL.
Exactly, has to be ole Marty R.
Matt even called him marty by accident
I never do anything by accident, except maybe trip on a sidewalk when I’m out running.
LOL nice to see things are nice and delusional here in crazy land. Matt, have you quoted yourself in any of your “news stories” lately? Please, I implore you guys to share the details of how you arrived at me being “Marty”. I’d love to hear how that conversation went. Way to keep MC nice and dumb there NIT crew. I couldn’t be happier to have relocated to Des Moines. Cheers!
@ Peter, you say “Anyone who uses any toxic substance during pregnancy should be arrested and charged criminally.”
People forget that the THC gets stored in fat cells, and then the THC gets released when that fat cell is released to be used as energy. People do not have to be high at the time of procreation to end up with offspring that has lifelong problems due to the parents previous use of pot.
You will never win this debate. There is just no justification for using pot.
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Most studies about the long term affects of marijuana on children show that heavy usage during pregnancy may cause some problems. But, they also state that “alcohol is still the drug with the highest risk and the widest range of birth defects, including physical, mental and behavioral.” They haven’t found any evidence that occasional usage causes problems later in life. Your assertions would have more weight if you had facts to back them up.
@bodacious-Sorry guy, but you sure have been reading different reports than I have. It has been all over Yahoo that pot use among teens affects their I.Q. (dumbing them down). There was even a segment on it on the CBS evening news a week ago. It just shows for every study showing there is no harm there is another one showing it does. The Federal View is it is harmful and that is why they refuse to legalize it. One of the candidates even said if he was elected he would shut it down. Rand I think
The studies I read explicitly stated that the usage of subject was “heavy”, not the person who occasionally uses marijuana. None of them stated what they considered as heavy usage but you could probably find similar results among parents who drank heavily. You all still seem to believe in the ;reefer madness’ of the 1920s and 1930s.
The only facts I have is the first hand observation of drug parents and their challenged offspring. I met and spoke with dozens of parents over a 25 year period. While not scientific, many of the parents confessed to me they felt guilty for their children condition.
I don’t need rocket science or a hit in the head to figure out that the curse these parents and society found themselves with was caused by the use of pot.
@watchdog-I too know a lot of pot heads. You can pretty much tell when you try to talk to them.
Hey Peter, go visit the facilities that house the challenged. Many of those that end up being warehoused by their parents in these “care facilities” were the offspring of pot smoking parents. It is only my opinion, but I believe that these children born during drug induced procreation have their parents to thank for their condition. It is shameful.
I still vote no on using pot.
Anyone who uses any toxic substance during pregnancy should be arrested and charged criminally; that includes poor food choices like high fructose corn syrup and other junk food. It’s unarguably heinous for mothers to be drinking booze, smoking cigs, doing meth, coke, crack etc. while pregnant knowingly before becoming pregnant. It’s also child abuse to be smoking around children. But that has nothing to do with responsible non-criminal use of substances by consenting adults.
There are ways for society to charge people with crimes for using things which otherwise are legal, in an illegal way. If you give alcohol to a minor or drive under its influence you are guilty of a criminal offense…likewise if you use a butcher knife to stab your wife. You can use it to cut potatoes, but if you stab someone you’re guilty. Same goes for pot or meth or coke or anything. If you use it then act in a criminally negligent or intentionally criminal manner…ur guilty.
I guess I don’t care what anybody else does to themselves?
@sad-You will think differently when they can’t go to work or get a job and end up on the welfare rolls or even worse, drive while under the influence and end up hurting someone. I don’t have a problem with medical marijuana but we have enough brain dead people without making it easier for them.
Again, you lutz along with your selective viewpoints. Everyone knows the damage alcohol causes…yet society somehow manages. MADD was created in response to all the alcoholics out there killing people on the roads. Get your facts and information straight before you come onto public blogs and act professorial.
What a stupid thing to say. Just because alcohol is known to create problems is not a excuse to let pot do it too. Your ignorance astounds me.
Yeah! If ALCOHOL is doing all this bad stuff we should outlaw it too! Oh wait, that didn’t work before. So if we cannot outlaw all the “bad things” that people want to do we should just legalize everything? NO? How about we just legalize the thing that people are using anyway and remaining functioning tax paying citizens (and politicians for that matter). Pot is not the enemy, neither is alcohol. The people who can’t manage their lives are the ones who need the attention.
If Philly had his way, all illegal drugs would be legal, including LSD, meth, heroine and cocaine.
Then we would have complete chaos and a bunch of drugged up losers like him running around. Marijuana is one thing, especially for medicinal purposes. But the others…..no way!
Actually, I favor a licensing procedure which would allow non-violent, non criminal persons to acquire creative substances such as marijuana, mushrooms, lsd in a legal manner…contingent on their adherence to a strict “non-harming” agreement signed by the user. I see these substances as something that should be available at licensed dispensaries and quality controlled. There’s no reason I shouldn’t be able to use cocaine to lift my depression or play my guitar and ace a solo.
I have no problem agreeing to a “doubling of sentences and fines” for persons found criminally negligent / culpable while under the influence of a substance; alcohol and tobacco included. But if a person is able to act in a non-harming, non criminal manner, there’s no reason they shouldn’t put into their bodies whatever they choose to. Education is more important than punishment and prohibition. The govt. made the wrong choice and gobs of unnecessary suffering ensued.
Cure depression = fixing a problem,
Ace guitar solo = ”enhance preformance”,
U don’t get it.
I vote against pot. All you have to do is follow the blogs and you can tell the ones who have used the dope, especially the one that uses the handle philly. His use maryjane is very telling.
On the other hand, what the hell, someone has to deliver the pizzas.
If you vote against it, then you don’t know what you are voting for. Recreational marijuana is going to be here, it is the ‘when’ that is in question. With 62% of the 18-34 group supporting it, once they realize that voting does make a difference, they will pass it here. Medical marijuana is here now, but in a convoluted way. Next year the majority repubs will vote it in and praise themselves for their compassion and prudent action on legalizing it.
Sure I know what I am doing. It’s all the idiots that vote for it that don’t have a clue. Pot heads are space cadets. Just because folks have got used to all the bumbling pot heads doesn’t mean it is a good thing.
I do agree that there are a lot of dipshits using pot but it don’t take long to figure out they are not to bright nor real ambitious.
Wasn’t to long ago I had a carpenter working on my house that had used pot earlier in the day cut his finger off.
Ya, legalize it!
Watchdog, I stopped counting after I found five grammatical/spelling errors in your post. Maybe you should stop calling others “not to bright”. (That should be “too”, by the way.)
@JMO-Once again, N.I.T. is not a English class. No one except you cares about spelling or grammatical errors. This is basically a blog. If you have trouble understanding what is printed I am sure someone will help you.
I had a guy who was shingling my roof and he fell off. Never tried pot before but with your logic, we should blame the pot users. By the way, most of my original post was primarily about medical marijuana. The benefits of it for people who have no other medicines that alleviate pain or seizures is well-documented. Move out of the stone age.
I used to work with a guy years ago on a construction job and he smoked a joint every day and he always did a great job. One day he smoked 4 joints and on his way home crossed the center line and hit a tree, he was killed instantly so don’t tell me that there is nothing wrong with it.
Marijuana has a mood leveling effect similar to lithium. If I used marijuana like you allege I do, I wouldn’t advance 3/4 of the material I write about. I’d be much too pacifistic and self conscious. I’ve sacrificed my inner comfort zone to push the envelope of ideas. You have it wrong as usual about marihuana and drugs in general. People who are careless, will be more careless under marijuana. A mechanized dangerously fast society it is NOT compatible with, to this I agree.