Posted on 11/14/2019 12:17:51 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
Two-thirds of Americans say the use of marijuana should be legal, reflecting a steady increase over the past decade, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. The share of U.S. adults who oppose legalization has fallen from 52% in 2010 to 32% today.
Meanwhile, an overwhelming majority of U.S. adults (91%) say marijuana should be legal either for medical and recreational use (59%) or that it should be legal just for medical use (32%). Fewer than one-in-ten (8%) prefer to keep marijuana illegal in all circumstances, according to the survey, conducted Sept. 3 to 15 on Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel.
As in the past, there are wide partisan and generational differences in views of marijuana legalization. Nearly eight-in-ten Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents (78%) say marijuana use should be legal. Republicans and Republican leaners are less supportive, with 55% in favor of legalization and 44% opposed.
Majorities of Millennials (those born between 1981 and 1997), Generation X (born between 1965 and 1980) and Baby Boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) say the use of marijuana should be legal. Members of the Silent Generation (born between 1928 and 1945) continue to be the least supportive of legalization: Only 35% favor legalizing marijuana, while 64% are opposed.
The generational divide in views of marijuana legalization exists within both party coalitions. Large majorities of Boomer (81%), Gen X (76%) and Millennial Democrats (78%) say the use of marijuana should be made legal, compared with 53% of Silent Generation Democrats who say this.
Millennial Republicans also broadly favor legalizing marijuana use; in fact, Republicans in this generation are almost as supportive of legalization as Millennial Democrats (71% vs. 78%). Gen X and Boomer Republicans are more closely divided, with 55% of Gen X Republicans and 49% of Boomer Republicans favoring legalization. GOP members of the Silent Generation are the least likely to favor marijuana legalization: Just 21% say marijuana use should be legal, while three-quarters (76%) say it should not. Around nine-in-ten Americans favor legalization for recreational or medical purposes
In addition to asking respondents about whether marijuana use should be legal in general, the Center asked a separate group of respondents about legalizing marijuana for medical and recreational use. Nearly six-in-ten Americans (59%) favor legalizing marijuana for medical and recreational use, while another 32% say it should be legal for medical use only. Only 8% say it should not be legal.
About two-thirds of Democrats (68%) say marijuana should be legal for both medical and recreational use, compared with 49% of Republicans. Republicans are more likely than Democrats to say it should be legal just for medical purposes (38% vs. 28%) or that it should not be legal at all (12% vs. 4%).Republicans in Silent Generation least likely to favor legalizing marijuana use
Younger adults are somewhat more likely than older adults to say that marijuana use should be legal for both medical and recreational use. About two-thirds (69%) of those ages 18 to 29 say it should be legal for both types of use, compared with 48% of those ages 65 and older. Most adults 65 and over nonetheless favor legalization in some form.
The growth in public support for legal marijuana has come as a growing number of jurisdictions have legalized marijuana for medical or recreational purposes.
Eleven states and the District of Columbia have legalized the drug for recreational purposes.
Meanwhile, 33 states – plus the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands – have legalized the drug for medical purposes, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Marijuana remains illegal under U.S. federal law. However, several Democratic candidates for president have proposals to legalize or decriminalize marijuana use.
So says Soros.
>>Two reasons... #1 poor information gathering, and statistical anomalies... if you looked at the number of accidents per miles traveled it would be one of the very worst places.<<
You must not have looked at my link. WA has one of the lowest rates per miles travelled. Check it out.
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>>90% of the people in Washington live in Western Washington where the weather is just crappy enough to keep most of the people to depressed to bother going for a car ride.<<
We’re talking about death rate per miles travelled, so #2 doesn’t apply.
I see they recently finally put Johnny Boone away for all practical purposes life.
The giant point that everyone misses when talking about pot use is that...
...what were we talking about again?
I have an uncle going through chemo right now.
He has lost a tremendous amount of weight. They
had to put a feeding tube in him. He was not a big
guy so start with.
MJ notoriously gives one “the munchies” so it can encourage chemo patients to overcome the nausea and get some food down.
My father also had cancer. He had ended treatments and was on the road out. They were talking to him about experimental pain clinics. Medical MJ would have been a better alternative for him than a lot of things IMHO.
But the recreational use of the people I knew in school...nah, can’t say I support that.
I prefer the more restrictive medical marijuana decriminalization
That works fine for serious smokers
Like I was once
Stoned immaculate 1971-1985
Briefly from late 1990-early 1991 24/7 like before
Then life caught up with me more and more
Dangerous work environments like Sierra Leone and this:
“ Mommy had. A little baby.
There he is. Fast asleep.
He’s just. A little plaything.
Why not. Wake him up?
Cute. Cute. Little baby.
Little pee pee. Little toes.
Now he’s comin’ to me.
Crawl across. The kitchen floor.”
You win the thread!!!
That is some stewpid s**t. The type of st00pit that hurts... for real.
Not kidding. Owwww.. make it stop.
I am certain some will be so loaded on weed as they drive
It was happening before legalization, and legalization won't increase it - those who formerly avoided pot because it was illegal, will continue to avoid driving stoned because that remains illegal.
Quite a bit.
They have their own pinglist and everything.
And liquor is 8x more potent than beer; what of it?
Drug Warriors studiously avoid being confused by the facts.
Yep.
BTW, when I moved to KY about 8 years ago, I played in a classic rock band who’s members had been in what they called “the official rock band of the Cornbread Mafia”.
They were dead serious and, after hearing a few dozen stories, I believe them.
There was one thing they mentioned: If you are wandering through the woods, hunting or whatever, and come across the edge of a marijuana field, back away very carefully and hope there are not any dogs around.
That’s not an issue today, but it was a couple of decades ago.
Please accept my apologies.
I always assumed it was for the Dragnet show on radio 1949-1957 and TV 1951-1959 and 1967-1970. And the Dan Ackroyd and Tom Hanks movie.
I know of course it is a term from the old days.
First for catching fish since the stone age and then for police work.
Please accept my apology.
Wrong - legalization of marijuana represents a return to the situation before 1937.
End the federal prohibition & let the states decide!!!
That at least is comforting and you make a lot of sense. Why would the non pot smokers be attracted to it just because it became legal. Good point.
Legalization would put an end to that.
Remember that episode when Joe Friday was going to night school? He saw a fellow student with a baggie in his notebook.
He arrested said student. Read him his Miranda Rights of course.
That Joe Friday was a real tight ass. For sure.
Been using cannabis every day since Feb 2015.
Still waiting for my gateway to appear.
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