Poll: Public supports medical marijuana, but not full pot legalization

Ernst

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Poll: Public supports medical marijuana, but not full pot legalization


Here is a CBS Poll I wish favored Legalizing but hey we are getting closer.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57327004-503544/poll-public-supports-medical-marijuana-but-not-full-pot-legalization/


According a recent CBS News poll conducted at the end of October, a slim majority of 51 percent continues to think that marijuana use should be illegal. But support for specifically allowing doctors to prescribe marijuana for serious medical conditions - or legalized "medical" marijuana - is far stronger: 77 percent Americans think it should be allowed.
Still, even though most Americans support this, just three in 10 believe that the marijuana currently being bought in this country under state-authorized medical marijuana programs is being used in the way it has been authorized: for alleviating suffering from serious medical conditions.
Legalizing Marijuana
A recent CBS News Poll conducted nationwide finds 40 percent of Americans think the use of marijuana should be legal, while 51 percent think it should not. The percentage that favors legalizing marijuana use has been steady for the past two years, but it is larger than it was when CBS News first asked the question back in 1979.
 

ford442

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i believe it when we are talking nation-wide - some places back east are very entrenched in pot as a disreputable substance.. pot + hippy = californian / pabst + crew cut = south carolinian
 

Ernst

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Places down South think a Black man and a White woman getting married is an offence to God.

Edit: Texas too.
 

Matt Rize

Hashmaster
I believe we have talked about this. Its numbers like these why I don't put too much energy into recreational legalization. Medical is barely making it. Aren't those numbers pretty much the same as two years ago?
 

Ernst

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Yeah, the numbers are about the same. Up slightly since the crackdown.

It may be an indicator of change. The speed of political change.

I still believe that dropping commerce language will poll high. I wish I could poll for that.
 
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