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Thursday, October 22, 2015

Gallup: More Than Half of Americans Support Legal Marijuana

Americans' support for legal marijuana is at one of its highest points, with 58 percent now believing the drug's use should be legal in the United States, a new Gallup poll reveals.

Support for legalization has continued to grow sharply since 1969, when Gallup first asked the question and found 12 percent supported legalization. In the current poll, the numbers favoring legalization generally depended on age:

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7 comments:

LadyLiddy said...

No kidding. Sorry American tax-paying citizens, your lawmakers are beholden to the pharmaceutical companies.

Anonymous said...

I didn't vote so it would be higher.

Anonymous said...

First of all, it's not a drug; it's a plant. It's a weed, not a pharmaceutical.

Let us grow our own in our own yards and stay out of our business, unless we misuse it.

Anonymous said...

American society has been dumbed down.

Anonymous said...

The facts are that there is no good argument for why it is illegal. Lot's of miss information that has been dis proven again and again.
Canada is getting ready to legalize it nation wide. I say bravo to our neighbors to the north. Just wish you had better weather.

Anonymous said...

Thomas Jefferson would be outraged that a plant is illegal.Abraham Lincoln also knew that legislating a hunger is not the business of the Federal government.

Anonymous said...

i no i du