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Zogby Poll: Public Support For Marijuana At All Time High
41 Percent Say Pot Should Be Taxed, Regulated
Washington, DC: A growing percentage of Americans believe the government should regulate marijuana in a manner similar to tobacco or alcohol, according to a national poll of 1,204 likely voters by Zogby International and commissioned by the Drug Policy Alliance.
Forty-one percent of respondents agree that "the government should treat marijuana more or less the same way it treats tobacco or alcohol: it should regulate marijuana, control it, tax it, and only make it illegal for children." That figure is up significantly from the 34 percent of Americans who said they supported legalizing marijuana in a 2001 USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll, and is almost three times as high as the percentage who supported legalization in 1972.
Hispanics (65%) are most likely to agree that the government should tax and regulate marijuana. Also agreeing are approximately half of Democrats, Independents, residents of the East and West, Catholics, those with some college education, adults with household incomes over $75,000 or more, and men.
A separate Time Magazine/CNN poll released last October found that 72 percent of Americans favored marijuana decriminalization, a policy whereby marijuana offenders are fined but not jailed, and 40 percent favored outright legalization. The latter figure was more than double the percentage that backed marijuana legalization in 1986.
"The American public are gradually coming around to the understanding that a legally regulated market for marijuana, with age and quality controls, is far better than the unregulated black market we have today," said NORML Executive Director Keith Stroup. "It's the same lesson we learned with alcohol during the 1920s. Criminal prohibition is a failed public policy that does not work."
For more information, please contact Keith Stroup, NORML Executive Director, at (202) 483-5500.
41 Percent Say Pot Should Be Taxed, Regulated
Washington, DC: A growing percentage of Americans believe the government should regulate marijuana in a manner similar to tobacco or alcohol, according to a national poll of 1,204 likely voters by Zogby International and commissioned by the Drug Policy Alliance.
Forty-one percent of respondents agree that "the government should treat marijuana more or less the same way it treats tobacco or alcohol: it should regulate marijuana, control it, tax it, and only make it illegal for children." That figure is up significantly from the 34 percent of Americans who said they supported legalizing marijuana in a 2001 USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll, and is almost three times as high as the percentage who supported legalization in 1972.
Hispanics (65%) are most likely to agree that the government should tax and regulate marijuana. Also agreeing are approximately half of Democrats, Independents, residents of the East and West, Catholics, those with some college education, adults with household incomes over $75,000 or more, and men.
A separate Time Magazine/CNN poll released last October found that 72 percent of Americans favored marijuana decriminalization, a policy whereby marijuana offenders are fined but not jailed, and 40 percent favored outright legalization. The latter figure was more than double the percentage that backed marijuana legalization in 1986.
"The American public are gradually coming around to the understanding that a legally regulated market for marijuana, with age and quality controls, is far better than the unregulated black market we have today," said NORML Executive Director Keith Stroup. "It's the same lesson we learned with alcohol during the 1920s. Criminal prohibition is a failed public policy that does not work."
For more information, please contact Keith Stroup, NORML Executive Director, at (202) 483-5500.
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