POLL SHOWS OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF AMERICANS -- 74% -- FULLY SUPPORT STATE MEDICAL MARIJUANA LAWS

[kpete]

POLL SHOWS OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF AMERICANS -- 74% -- FULLY SUPPORT STATE MEDICAL MARIJUANA LAWS


WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a just-released poll conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, three quarters of American voters (74%) want the Obama administration to respect individual state medical marijuana laws. The nationwide poll of 1000 registered likely voters was conducted May 7 to 11, 2012, and commissioned by the Marijuana Policy Project. The poll informed voters that medical marijuana is legal with a doctor’s recommendation in 16 states as well as the District of Columbia, and in some of those states it is legal for licensed and tightly regulated individuals to grow and sell marijuana to qualifying patients. Respondents were then asked if President Obama should respect the medical marijuana laws in these states, or continue to use federal resources to arrest and prosecute individuals who are acting in compliance with state medical marijuana laws.

"These results are consistent with the clear and growing body of evidence that documents substantial voter support for the legalization of medical marijuana," said Larry Harris, a principal with Mason-Dixon Polling & Research.

Support for keeping the federal government out of state medical marijuana issues was universal across all demographics. With respect to political affiliation, 75% of Democrats, 67% of Republicans, and, notably 79% of Independents said that President Obama should respect state medical marijuana laws. Even among the least supportive group (those identified as over 65 years of age), 64% were in favor of respecting state law.

“The results of this survey demonstrate that there is virtually no support in the country for the Obama administration's crackdown on state medical marijuana laws,” said Steve Fox, director of government relations for the Marijuana Policy Project. “Across all demographic and ideological groups, the American people strongly believe the president should respect state medical marijuana laws, as he promised he would when he campaigned to be president. It is clearly time for President Obama to stand up to the members of his administration who are carrying out the morally wrong and politically unpopular policy of denying patients safe access to this beneficial medicine.”

The full poll and demographic breakdown can be viewed here: http://bit.ly/Kx0zu4
http://www.mpp.org/media/press-releases/poll-shows-overwhelming.html

[patrice]

1. MMJ is an issue that reveals how tired people are of being TOLD what they think. nt

[bubbalubagus]

2. The world would make so much more sense to me if MJ was legal.

not in a "wow dude i never thought of it that way" way- i like to think i've evolved past that inevitable stage. rather, the things our local, state, and federal government says and then does would be a hell of a lot more logically consistent. they go on and on about freedom and personal choice, in grade school we are told we can be whatever we want when we grow up so long as it doesn't hurt anyone else and doesn't deprive them of the ability to be what they want to be, and it's all a pile of crap. i wanna be a marijuana farmer! okay, how about 10 years in jail instead? .... da fuk? when the law is clearly more harmful to society than the drug: tearing apart families, creating a permanent underclass, etc how do we stand around day after day pretending that everything is okay.

everything is not okay! to give this post at least some relevence to the OP, mmj was a great foot in the door. but unfortunately that is exactly how it was viewed by people in positions of power and even many dispenseries don't want to see MJ legalized bc *poof* there goes their monopoly on a plant that is easy to grow nationwide.

its just such a cryin' shame I can barely take it sometimes. sound like "first world problems" to you? well maybe you actually get to do what you want for a living.