I have to say, though, that if I lived in Illinois, the fact that he successfully got cannabis legalized there would make it very difficult for me to completely disdain the man. In Wisconsin, we have a governor who would like to do the same thing, but our old-school Republican legislature as well as the beer-industry that rules this state with an iron fist will never allow this to happen. They won't even legalize the medicinal use of cannabis, probably because "medicinal" states have a way of not always but often becoming "recreational" states.
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