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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Most N.J. residents OK with legalizing and taxing pot for adults, poll says 🌿Most N.J. residents OK with legalizing and taxing pot for adults, poll says
TRENTON — More than half of New Jerseyans — 58 percent — either support legalizing, regulating and taxing marijuana for adults 21 years old and older, according to a Rutgers-Eagelton poll released Thursday.
Nearly just as many people — 57 percent — say it is not a pressing issue, while 44 percent called it "very" or "somewhat" important priority for elected leaders.
"The trend in New Jersey mirrors the nation as support for legalizing marijuana continues to grow," said David Redlawsk, director of the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling and professor of political science at Rutgers University. "The question we asked this year is more specific than in the past, specifying that legalization would come with taxes and regulation and would apply to adults 21 and over. That likely accounts for some of the jump from 49 percent support a year ago to 58 percent today. But...
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