"Ever since the Washington State Supreme Court struck down the state's felony drug possession law, cops and Republicans and their besties in the media have relayed dubious anecdotes and issued alarmist warnings in an attempt to scare the hell out of everybody. They aim to build public pressure on state lawmakers to put the law back on the books so that police officers, prosecutors, and judges can continue to jail Black people and Indigenous people at higher rates than white people for the same crime.
But a new poll from FM3 Research suggests that a majority of Washingtonians aren't buying it."