Gallup: Record-High 50% of Americans Favor Legalizing Marijuana Use

[Upton]

A record-high 50% of Americans now say the use of marijuana should be made legal, up from 46% last year. Forty-six percent say marijuana use should remain illegal.



http://www.gallup.com/poll/150149/Record-High-Americans-Favor-Legalizing-Marijuana.aspx

Hey now..maybe someone ought to tell the drug warriors in Congress and the WH..

[slackmaster]

1. Auto-Rec for witty double entendre in the subject line

:kick:

[the other one]

2. I am the 50%

[Upton]

3. So am I..

gotta wonder what the 46% are all about. No doubt slurping up the drug war propaganda..

[malthaussen]

17. Part of the 50%?

Hell, in 1970 I was part of the 12%. And I don't even smoke the stuff.

-- Mal

[DreamSmoker]

4. It won't happen with Obama or any Republican either

Here is why.. From his own mouth:

Barack Obama and Medical Marijuana (interview Q&A)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x625867

[Upton]

6. Obama is a drug warrior..

I don't care what anybody around here says. We're not going to get a damn thing out of him, except for raids on medical pot dispensaries.

[surrealAmerican]

18. It probably won't happen until it's closer to 75% in favor ...

... which could be another ten years.

[pipi_k]

5. I don't like it personally, but no problem with it being legal n/t

[Romulox]

Obama: Out of Step with America. nt

[aquart]

7. Me, too! Me, too!

[thelordofhell]

8. The other 46% were too high to pick the right answer

[-..__...]

9. The current state of the economy probably has something to do with it.

The potential for more tax revenues to assist cash starved communities is getting too big to ignore... especially when the taxes will come from the consumer end and not each persons paycheck.

[slay]

10. Of course it should be legal - only propaganda and lies have kept it from becoming so

anyone who has ever smoked pot on even a semi-regular basis knows it is way less intoxicating and harmful than alcohol - and with using a vaporizer or baking it into food - it can be safe for your lungs - unlike cigs. It is way past time to LEGALIZE IT! If people don't want to smoke it, that's great - but don't stop those of us who want - or need - to.

[musiclawyer]

23. Way cheaper to vape longterm too

You use alot less and the leftover residue can be cooked later. Zero waste.

[2pooped2pop]

11. Probably higher if they'd quit the negative propaganda

on it.

[Upton]

12. I guess it could be my imagination..

but it seems as if there's been a lot of negative pot propaganda being pushed out in the media lately..and the fact that it coincides with the recent crackdown on MM dispensaries, has really awakened my suspicions...

[Warren DeMontague]

13. LEGALIZE IT, REGULATE IT, AND TAX IT. NOW.

:kick:

[Warren DeMontague]

14. The shape of that graph looks like a big spliff, too.

:hippie:

[Upton]

16. Hey man, it sort of does..

:smoke:

[FiveGoodMen]

15. Too bad our government doesn't care what we think!

[Canuckistanian]

19. What happened in 1977?

Is that when the Grateful Dead broke up?

[Warren DeMontague]

25. You're obviously not a Deadhead. May of 1977 is considered by many to be the pinnacle. The "peak"

as it were.


I think all the eras have something to recommend them (1993-1995, maybe not so much) but May of '77 is pretty fucking cooking.

[Canuckistanian]

27. No, not a Deadhead myself

But I didn't mean to be facetious. I like their music too.

Just making a joke.

[Warren DeMontague]

28. I was in elementary school in 1977...

There was some cool shit happening, but I wasn't doing it. Not then.

[JoeyT]

20. Looks like it's time to ramp up the propaganda, especially the stuff directed at children.

I bet we'll see plenty of bipartisanship when it's time to fund that.

[RainDog]

26. some ppl think the recent reports about driving under the influence

are meant to be scare tactics to delay the inevitable.

but, there is a test available that can deal with driving under the influence. And, as with alcohol, when something is legal, we have agencies that create public service messages to tell people not to drink and drive, and we'll have ones that remind not to toke and drive.

[Harry J Asslinger]

21. And it will continue to rise.

The Angus Reid Poll numbers were 55% in support of legalization, and now Gallup is up to 50%.

K&R.

[indepat]

22. What is wrong with the 50% who want

this obscene, costly travesty of justice and ruination of lives to continue? PS This bunny, having never used the stuff in any form, would like to see this obscene, costly travesty of justice eradicated so those suffering and in need of medical marijuana can use it without inconvenience, harassment, or arrest and possible incarceration. :patriot:

[musiclawyer]

24. This why I think the legalization measures will pass in CA

This time. The big pro legal money will not sit this one out like in 2010, where the measure was poorly written and premature according to many in the industry. Especially if the feds keep crackiong down. The more they do this the more the odds are of the '12 measure passing.