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Michael Knowles was talking today about how tobacco/nicotine was right-coded and mj was left-coded.
The high level, and probably backwards rationalizing, explanation is that nicotine makes people more active and productive and thin, while marijuana makes people passive and lazy and fat. The left-leaning technocrats want a passive and submissive population while the right-leaning individuals (there are no right-leaning elites) want an energized and engaged population.
Look at he people who are for and against each and it mostly tracks.
I'm a right wing pothead. I know lots of people like myself.
I don't think your thought process is wrong. I think your data set is too narrow and its causing you to come to that conclusion. The majority of users are from the realm of "I do what the tv tells me" and those people aren't left or right. We would have to boil down who exists outside of that group and why they think the way they do.
This is not a rant against you. I just wanted to comment on the subject you brought up.
Feel free to rant against me.
I don't have a data set, I'm just theorycrafting. Generalizations don't rule out exceptions.