While cannabis is supported by the vast majority of Americans according to most polls – people taking the polls and those who occupy seats in city or town councils are cut from different cloths. These so called “leaders” believe that by allowing cannabis to be legally available for purchase within their jurisdiction is an endorsement of drug use. They subscribe to the ideas perpetuated by the drug war that cannabis is a dangerous drug, that it’s a gateway drug, that they don’t want potheads running about, that they are protecting their children…etc.