Clear majority favors legal marijuana, new Gallup poll shows

[ScienceRocks]

Clear majority favors legal marijuana, new Gallup poll shows

By Evan Burgos, Staff Writer, NBC News

Americans who believe marijuana should remain illegal are now in the minority, according to new poll numbers released Tuesday.

For the first time ever in a Gallup poll, a clear majority of the country – 58 percent – say that pot should be legalized. That figure represents an increase of 10 percentage points since last year, according to Gallup. The poll surveyed 1,028 Americans by phone Oct. 3-6.

Those in favor of legalization skew young and liberal, though the biggest increase of support came among people identified as independents. Sixty-two percent of independents favored legalization in 2013, up 12 percentage points from last year, according to the poll. Sixty-five percent of Democrats favored legalization, vs. just 35 percent of Republicans.

Clear majority favors legal marijuana, new Gallup poll shows - U.S. News


People are tired of spending BILLIONS of dollars to lock up millions of people for smoking a weed. Legalize now!

 

[Votto]

Clear majority favors legal marijuana, new Gallup poll shows

By Evan Burgos, Staff Writer, NBC News

Americans who believe marijuana should remain illegal are now in the minority, according to new poll numbers released Tuesday.

For the first time ever in a Gallup poll, a clear majority of the country – 58 percent – say that pot should be legalized. That figure represents an increase of 10 percentage points since last year, according to Gallup. The poll surveyed 1,028 Americans by phone Oct. 3-6.

Those in favor of legalization skew young and liberal, though the biggest increase of support came among people identified as independents. Sixty-two percent of independents favored legalization in 2013, up 12 percentage points from last year, according to the poll. Sixty-five percent of Democrats favored legalization, vs. just 35 percent of Republicans.

Clear majority favors legal marijuana, new Gallup poll shows - U.S. News


People are tired of spending BILLIONS of dollars to lock up millions of people for smoking a weed. Legalize now!

Meanwhile, the NDAA gets passed which does away with your due process under the Constitution and no one gives a damn.

Enjoy your pot.

 

[ClosedCaption]

This is one issue that Republicans will opppose and tell you flat out its because they dont like it. Yanno becuase... freedom agenda.

 

[ShootSpeeders]

I say BS on this poll. All polls that show public support for legalizing drugs are rigged by the auto industry. They've lost a fortune due to the war on DUI and so want more stoned drivers. Car crashes mean car sales.

 

[ScienceRocks]

The part I am concern about is the fact that non-violent people are going to jail. The chances you join a gang or come out worse for it are too damn high.

Why not focus on helping people instead of destroying their lives?

 

[TheOldSchool]

I say BS on this poll. All polls that show public support for legalizing drugs are rigged by the auto industry. They've lost a fortune due to the war on DUI and so want more stoned drivers. Car crashes mean car sales.

Shootspeeder would make a great nickname for a joint. Anyone else agree?

I just thought of a great "code-question" that could be used to identify USMB'ers...

"You tryin' to smoke a ShootSpeeder?"

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

I say BS on this poll. All polls that show public support for legalizing drugs are rigged by the auto industry. They've lost a fortune due to the war on DUI and so want more stoned drivers. Car crashes mean car sales.

You are as big a moron as Matthew

 

[ScienceRocks]

Why send non-violent people to prison for years? A environment that breeds violence.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Clear majority favors legal marijuana, new Gallup poll shows

By Evan Burgos, Staff Writer, NBC News

Americans who believe marijuana should remain illegal are now in the minority, according to new poll numbers released Tuesday.

For the first time ever in a Gallup poll, a clear majority of the country – 58 percent – say that pot should be legalized. That figure represents an increase of 10 percentage points since last year, according to Gallup. The poll surveyed 1,028 Americans by phone Oct. 3-6.

Those in favor of legalization skew young and liberal, though the biggest increase of support came among people identified as independents. Sixty-two percent of independents favored legalization in 2013, up 12 percentage points from last year, according to the poll. Sixty-five percent of Democrats favored legalization, vs. just 35 percent of Republicans.

Clear majority favors legal marijuana, new Gallup poll shows - U.S. News


People are tired of spending BILLIONS of dollars to lock up millions of people for smoking a weed. Legalize now!

A clear majority of 850 people surveyed?

 

[Steven_R]

Sorry homies, can't make da kronic legal.

Gotta keep federal law dogs on teh job.

Just think of it as corporate subsidies for da hood.

Yep. It's welfare for law enforcement. Keep drugs illegal and send drug enforcement grants to every agency under the sun. Keep justifying those budgets.

It never should have been illegal in the first place and all prohibition has done is create a huge black market, gut the Fourth Amendment, piss away money on inflated police budgets, and allow all the violence that comes with a black market to get entrenched.

You would think that the members of Congress would have learned from alcohol prohibition, but no.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Why send non-violent people to prison for years? A environment that breeds violence.

Have you ever been to prison? Do you realize most people in prison for drugs are there for crimes commited while in posession of drugs? Do you know how many times people in prison for drug related crimes are given probation multiple times prior to incarceration?

You don't know shit so just turn off your pc and go back to dreaming about infrastructure.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Sorry homies, can't make da kronic legal.

Gotta keep federal law dogs on teh job.

Just think of it as corporate subsidies for da hood.

Yep. It's welfare for law enforcement. Keep drugs illegal and send drug enforcement grants to every agency under the sun. Keep justifying those budgets.

It never should have been illegal in the first place and all prohibition has done is create a huge black market, gut the Fourth Amendment, piss away money on inflated police budgets, and allow all the violence that comes with a black market to get entrenched.

You would think that the members of Congress would have learned from alcohol prohibition, but no.

What do you mean they didn't learn?

They got the power. they got the money. they got the peeps locked up.

need me to draw you a pitcher?

Cracka in disguise

 

[thereisnospoon]

Clear majority favors legal marijuana, new Gallup poll shows

By Evan Burgos, Staff Writer, NBC News

Americans who believe marijuana should remain illegal are now in the minority, according to new poll numbers released Tuesday.

For the first time ever in a Gallup poll, a clear majority of the country – 58 percent – say that pot should be legalized. That figure represents an increase of 10 percentage points since last year, according to Gallup. The poll surveyed 1,028 Americans by phone Oct. 3-6.

Those in favor of legalization skew young and liberal, though the biggest increase of support came among people identified as independents. Sixty-two percent of independents favored legalization in 2013, up 12 percentage points from last year, according to the poll. Sixty-five percent of Democrats favored legalization, vs. just 35 percent of Republicans.

Clear majority favors legal marijuana, new Gallup poll shows - U.S. News


People are tired of spending BILLIONS of dollars to lock up millions of people for smoking a weed. Legalize now!

marijuana contains a mind altering substance tetrahydrocannabinol ( THC)..
Do you really want to live in a country where 17.1 million people per month are walking around with a "good buzz" on? Smelling like shit. Because that is what spent pot smoke smells like"..Shit.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Clear majority favors legal marijuana, new Gallup poll shows

By Evan Burgos, Staff Writer, NBC News

Americans who believe marijuana should remain illegal are now in the minority, according to new poll numbers released Tuesday.

For the first time ever in a Gallup poll, a clear majority of the country – 58 percent – say that pot should be legalized. That figure represents an increase of 10 percentage points since last year, according to Gallup. The poll surveyed 1,028 Americans by phone Oct. 3-6.

Those in favor of legalization skew young and liberal, though the biggest increase of support came among people identified as independents. Sixty-two percent of independents favored legalization in 2013, up 12 percentage points from last year, according to the poll. Sixty-five percent of Democrats favored legalization, vs. just 35 percent of Republicans.

Clear majority favors legal marijuana, new Gallup poll shows - U.S. News


People are tired of spending BILLIONS of dollars to lock up millions of people for smoking a weed. Legalize now!

marijuana contains a mind altering substance tetrahydrocannabinol ( THC)..
Do you really want to live in a country where 17.1 million people per month are walking around with a "good buzz" on? Smelling like shit. Because that is what spent pot smoke smells like"..Shit.

Every single night well more than 17.1 million people are walking around with a "good buzz"

 

[Steven_R]

Clear majority favors legal marijuana, new Gallup poll shows

By Evan Burgos, Staff Writer, NBC News

Americans who believe marijuana should remain illegal are now in the minority, according to new poll numbers released Tuesday.

For the first time ever in a Gallup poll, a clear majority of the country – 58 percent – say that pot should be legalized. That figure represents an increase of 10 percentage points since last year, according to Gallup. The poll surveyed 1,028 Americans by phone Oct. 3-6.

Those in favor of legalization skew young and liberal, though the biggest increase of support came among people identified as independents. Sixty-two percent of independents favored legalization in 2013, up 12 percentage points from last year, according to the poll. Sixty-five percent of Democrats favored legalization, vs. just 35 percent of Republicans.

Clear majority favors legal marijuana, new Gallup poll shows - U.S. News


People are tired of spending BILLIONS of dollars to lock up millions of people for smoking a weed. Legalize now!

marijuana contains a mind altering substance tetrahydrocannabinol ( THC)..
Do you really want to live in a country where 17.1 million people per month are walking around with a "good buzz" on? Smelling like shit. Because that is what spent pot smoke smells like"..Shit.

A Fourth Amendment that means nothing, 3am SWAT no knock warrants leading to innocents being killed, property seizures with the courts doing legal gymnastics to get around the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, smuggling and violence and an underground economy, bloated police and prison budgets, backlogged courts and overloaded jails, and the general disregard of law & order versus 6% of the population getting high and stinking?

Yeah, I'm picking legalization and taxing weed as the better alternative.

 

[jasonnfree]

Clear majority favors legal marijuana, new Gallup poll shows

By Evan Burgos, Staff Writer, NBC News

Americans who believe marijuana should remain illegal are now in the minority, according to new poll numbers released Tuesday.

For the first time ever in a Gallup poll, a clear majority of the country – 58 percent – say that pot should be legalized. That figure represents an increase of 10 percentage points since last year, according to Gallup. The poll surveyed 1,028 Americans by phone Oct. 3-6.

Those in favor of legalization skew young and liberal, though the biggest increase of support came among people identified as independents. Sixty-two percent of independents favored legalization in 2013, up 12 percentage points from last year, according to the poll. Sixty-five percent of Democrats favored legalization, vs. just 35 percent of Republicans.

Clear majority favors legal marijuana, new Gallup poll shows - U.S. News


People are tired of spending BILLIONS of dollars to lock up millions of people for smoking a weed. Legalize now!

marijuana contains a mind altering substance tetrahydrocannabinol ( THC)..
Do you really want to live in a country where 17.1 million people per month are walking around with a "good buzz" on? Smelling like shit. Because that is what spent pot smoke smells like"..Shit.

Same could be said for booze and there's less agression with pot I've noticed. And what about freedom?

 

[Steven_R]

And what about freedom?

That old thing? Pfft. We've got to protect white women from jazz musicians and a police state to build.

 

[ScienceRocks]

I've never been to prison. I just heard this on msnbc. Want looking for a link.

 

[Politico]

Yeah a clear majority lol. You like getting high we get it.

 

[ShootSpeeders]

I say BS on this poll. All polls that show public support for legalizing drugs are rigged by the auto industry. They've lost a fortune due to the war on DUI and so want more stoned drivers. Car crashes mean car sales.

You are as big a moron as Matthew

hahaha. You calling me a moron? After you called for the legalization of drunk driving?