Posted on 04/26/2018 9:37:15 PM PDT by Simon Green
Nearly two-thirds of U.S. voters back legalizing marijuana, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday.
Support for legalization hit 63 percent in the survey — the highest level of support recorded by a Quinnipiac poll. A third of American voters still oppose legalization, the poll found.
Support for medical marijuana is even higher, at 93 percent. Only about 5 percent of respondents opposed it.
The poll also found little support for Attorney General Jeff Sessions's decision earlier this year to rescind an Obama-era policy that paved the way for individual states to legalize marijuana without federal interference.
Seventy percent of respondents said that they oppose enforcement of federal laws prohibiting marijuana in states that have moved to legalize the substance, while only 23 percent were in favor of such enforcement.
So far, nine states and the District of Columbia have legalized the use of recreational pot, and two dozen states have approved medical marijuana. Nevertheless, the substance remains federally prohibited.
In January, Sessions rescinded the Cole memo, which discouraged federal prosecutors from prioritizing marijuana-related charges in states that had voted to legalize it.
Fifty-four percent of respondents to the Quinnipiac poll said that among the reasons to legalize marijuana is that it would bring in additional revenue through taxes. Still, 42 percent said that such revenue is not a good justification for legalizing pot.
The Quinnipiac poll surveyed 1,193 voters from April 20-24. Its margin of error is plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.
How heavy did they oversample Dems and Liberaltarians in the poll?
I want all lefts so stoned that they forget to vote and made so lazy that they don’t care.
I see no downside to this.
This explains a lot.
80% of those two thirds don’t understand (because it isn’t being covered) the pure havoc that is wrought by legalization. the other 20% are skeevy stoners with a good sprinkling of sanctimonious libertarians telling people what’s good for them.
They’ll vote to keep the Dotitos coming.
smokin pot makes ppl stupid and causes them to vote Liberal
just what we need , a nation full of rastas
Or just offsetting the sanctimonious “conservatives” that tell people what’s good for them. I see the libertarians wanting people to decide for themselves. I guess that’s more Liberty than some are comfortable with.
libertarians are liberals in denial.
Donald Trump will never be the Republican nominee.
Only ¡YEB! can defeat Hillary.
It’s less support for cannabis and more loathing for the tyrannical police state that all good Americans are long since sick and tired of.
It is interesting to note that in Oregon where they thought they were going to get rich off of pot they ended up growing almost three times more than they could smoke and now investors are going broke.
Maybe Boehner’s marijuana company will take a hit.
Soros plants his latest propaganda in the leftwing rag, The Hill.
Is this “poll” anything like the poll that said Hillary Clinton had a 97% chance of winning the US presidency?
So YOU decide who are "good Americans" ?
Yes, I decide.
Irie.
If you get down and you quarrel every day, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.
One love.
So does booze.
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