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The Other Southern Comfort, Ctd

A reader focuses on the structural obstacles to legalizing pot in the South: Your thread on the side of Southern culture that really doesn’t like being told what to do is insightful. However, you are neglecting the institutional aspect of Southern politics. With the exception of Arkansas, no state in the Confederate South has the direct citizen’s initiative for statutes (see here). Only Mississippi and Florida have … Continue reading The Other Southern Comfort, Ctd

The Other Southern Comfort, Ctd

Readers continue the thread: I knew the War On Weed was doomed two years ago when I attended a Hank Williams Jr. concert in red-state Oklahoma. In between lusty cheers every time Hank talked smack about Obama, the rednecks all around me created a virtual haze of marijuana smoke. I’ve been to more than 100 … Continue reading The Other Southern Comfort, Ctd

The Other Southern Comfort, Ctd

A reader can relate to this post: I have some seriously rednecked cousins-in-law down here in Florida, and if there are two things they are proud of, it’s their Southern heritage and their liberty. They still bristle over the Northern War of Aggression and consider anyone north of Orlando a Yankee. They all smoke pot, … Continue reading The Other Southern Comfort, Ctd

The Other Southern Comfort

Patrik Jonsson wonders if legalization will catch on below the Mason-Dixon line: [L]ook a little closer at Dixie’s denizens and one sees small but potent signs of a legalization groundswell, in part fueled by the South’s unique contributions to marijuana culture and prohibition. In Texas and all over the South, there are a lot Willie Nelson-style … Continue reading The Other Southern Comfort