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>>RBBron+(OP)
>Attitudes are changing quickly

Are they now? Tell me, which political party is planning on decriminalizing drug offenses?

>>Daniha+cJ
Unnecessarily bitchy defeatism aside, the answer to your question is the Democratic Party[1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/08/01/cory-...

>>__jal+NM
Republican Rand Paul.. http://reason.com/blog/2016/01/15/rand-paul-says-pot-prohibi...

Suggesting the Democrat party wants to decriminalize drugs and drug offenses isn’t entirely accurate. Some people in both parties would like to see that happen.

States with vast Democrat majorities haven’t decriminalized drug offenses. Some states have to some degree, but you have to ask, when Democrats has the White House, House and Senate, they could have acted, but didn’t – even when they had a super-majority.

My point isn’t that Republicans are better, but the Democrat Party has had chances, but they failed to act, so the parent comment is correct – no party is actually doing anything when given the chance – just a few isolated people.

>>briand+BW
Use of "Democrat" rather than "Democratic" in this context is meant as a term of abuse, at least by conservatives who have started using it.

If your goal is to signal that you despise that party, then by all means keep using it here, but it seems closer to the kind of substantive discourse that HN encourages to avoid it.