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AZProgressive

(29,348 posts)
Tue Apr 27, 2021, 10:37 AM Apr 2021

6 facts about Americans and marijuana

Around nine-in-ten Americans favor some form of marijuana legalization, according to an April 2021 Pew Research Center survey. An overwhelming majority of U.S. adults (91%) say either that marijuana should be legal for medical and recreational use (60%) or that it should be legal for medical use only (31%). Just 8% say the drug should not be legal in any form.

Public support for marijuana legalization differs widely by age and party. Older adults are far less likely than younger ones to support marijuana legalization for both recreational and medical uses, according to the April 2021 survey. For instance, just 32% of adults ages 75 and older say marijuana should be legal for recreational and medical use, by far the lowest share for any age category. By contrast, seven-in-ten adults under the age of 30 favor legalization for medical and recreational use.

Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents are more likely than Republicans and GOP leaners to support the legalization of marijuana for both purposes (72% vs. 47%).

There has been a dramatic increase in public support for marijuana legalization in the last two decades. In addition to asking about the medical and recreational use of marijuana, the Center has also asked Americans a more general question about legalizing marijuana. In 2019, the last time the Center asked that question, two-thirds of adults expressed support for marijuana legalization, more than double the share who said so in 2000.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/04/26/facts-about-marijuana/
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6 facts about Americans and marijuana (Original Post) AZProgressive Apr 2021 OP
If Faux pas Apr 2021 #1
🌲 underpants Apr 2021 #2
Everybody must get stoned! sanatanadharma Apr 2021 #3
Apparently, just don't order or deliver THC, Delta-8, CBD, Backseat Driver Apr 2021 #4

Faux pas

(15,364 posts)
1. If
Tue Apr 27, 2021, 10:43 AM
Apr 2021

it was legal, we'd have a lot more Peace, Love and Joy all around. Maybe even the rethugs would get the sticks removed from their rectal passage areas

sanatanadharma

(4,074 posts)
3. Everybody must get stoned!
Tue Apr 27, 2021, 11:09 AM
Apr 2021

The damn dirty hippies were right all along.
And those who are right are totally wrong.
So what is left? The right to light up like a lamp, illuminating all as one's self.
And I say this as one of the 32% in my septuagenarian cohort.

Backseat Driver

(4,635 posts)
4. Apparently, just don't order or deliver THC, Delta-8, CBD,
Tue Apr 27, 2021, 11:57 AM
Apr 2021

Last edited Tue Apr 27, 2021, 02:46 PM - Edit history (1)

nor natural nicotine in flavors to one's brain via vape and also restrict the transport of pens and mandatory replacement pieces/parts for them, even if you are a responsible compliant wage-slave adult of any age or net worth! Just think of the children!

Must be something to do with the NRA and "responsible" gun ownership, concealed or not on one's hip anywhere one chooses, while going maskless and un-vaxed, then getting cozy during a pandemic, and winding up having a "spontaneous(ly)" single visit abortion which, of course, is a woman's-Doc-God (capitalization intended)-only issue, or is it? OK, well, responsible, compliant grown-ups - have a few cocktails and then drive to the nearest...pandemic compliant casino for a good time. Place your personal, responsible bets and Be Safe! Adult children only!

Yup, What happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas - it's a fact that can change one's world forever!








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