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Logical

(22,457 posts)
Thu May 30, 2013, 09:21 PM May 2013

Majority Now Supports Legalizing Marijuana

Link: http://www.people-press.org/2013/04/04/majority-now-supports-legalizing-marijuana/

For the first time in more than four decades of polling on the issue, a majority of Americans favor legalizing the use of marijuana. A national survey finds that 52% say that the use of marijuana should be made legal while 45% say it should not.

Support for legalizing marijuana has risen 11 points since 2010. The change is even more dramatic since the late 1960s. A 1969 Gallup survey found that just 12% favored legalizing marijuana use, while 84% were opposed.

The survey by the Pew Research Center, conducted March 13-17 among 1,501 adults, finds that young people are the most supportive of marijuana legalization. Fully 65% of Millennials –born since 1980 and now between 18 and 32 – favor legalizing the use of marijuana, up from just 36% in 2008. Yet there also has been a striking change in long-term attitudes among older generations, particularly Baby Boomers.

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Majority Now Supports Legalizing Marijuana (Original Post) Logical May 2013 OP
Note the last graph, independents are more liberal than Democrats... Scuba May 2013 #1
 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
1. Note the last graph, independents are more liberal than Democrats...
Thu May 30, 2013, 09:54 PM
May 2013

... and that's where the votes are if we'd go get them.

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