Do Richer States Smoke More Pot?

Yesterday, I looked at the relationship between drug use and politics. We saw that states that voted for Obama had higher levels of marijuana and cocaine use than those that voted for McCain. But perhaps economic factors lie behind those political trends. We know that Obama drew from less affluent minority voters and also from more well-educated, creative class voters. Perhaps the associations between drug use and voting patterns reflect deeper economic patterns. Continue reading this post by Richard Florida here.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2009/08/do-richer-states-smoke-more-pot/23122/