it's not so much that they are republicans or right wingers, but that they believe there is a link between all of our rights and that discrimination against any one of us leads to discrimination against us all. the left has become the realm of big government socialism and that is the very sort of ideology that led to this insane prohibition in the first place. our freedom to grow and consume cannabis is just a small part of the freedoms we are constantly losing to the totalitarian tendencies of big government and the responsible use of our favorite herb is just a small part of the greater concept of personal responsibility that seems to have become the nearly exclusive domain of conservative ideology.