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Out of sincere curiosity, how did you come about this knowledge of what reasons people voted for or against this?

I asked people who opposed marijuana on religious grounds of never intoxicating the mind. And they were young and inclined towards social justice. And they told me.

I asked a hospital doctor who said the same after witnessing Newark communities and voted to legalize.

... People shouldn’t vote for things that they don’t personally use?

I mean, I don’t use golf courses or fax machines, but I probably wouldn’t vote to ban them if the question was asked.

This seems absurd to me, since by that logic I shouldn’t support gay marriage. Put another way your view kind of discounts the quality of compassion.

Do you have to consume a substance to be in favor of it being legal?

care to elaborate? that sounds like exactly the way laws ought to be formed in this country: people placing justness over the impact to their personal lives.

So people should only want things they personally like to do to be legal?

Should everything that I don't personally do be outlawed?