Google Trends Indicate Political Viability For Medical Marijuana VS Legalized Pot

Gateway Drug vs Legalize Pot (top graph)

Medical Marijuana vs Legalize Pot (bottom graph)

Hello, welcome back to Real Heavy Politics - the blog. And, one of the very heaviest of all political issues is the decades long war on marijuana smokers carried out by both political parties. But, as you also know, the people in a few instances have risen out of the rhetoric to pass by vote more lenient measures about the natural plant - including - the bringing in a note from the doctor - for medical marijuana. And, even more recently, the outcome of the financial meltdown - cheerlead by our mindless media and worthless politicians - has prompted a few people to suggest legalizing pot for the tax revenue.

Indeed, smokers, craving only the basic right to self-medicate, can easily be swayed into thinking the politicians are going to do something about pot - even if the politicians really don't want to. --------- But, is that really the case?

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Because, if you look at the above chart on Google - you can see that `medical marijuana' is a searched term 60 TIMES more often than `legalize pot'. And, you can see that as far as media volume for the terms - legalize pot doesn't even make a real blip.

And, finally, notice that legalize pot doesn't even beat gateway drug - and, as of today - gateway drug is going up and legalize pot going down.

Here's the direct link to those graphs too: http://www.google.com/trends?q=legalize+pot%2C+gateway+drug&ctab=0&geo=all&date=ytd&sort=0

http://www.google.com/trends?q=legalize+pot%2C+medical+marijuana&ctab=0&geo=all&date=ytd&sort=0

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