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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 USA: Support for legalized marijuana rises to 58 percent in Gallup Poll 🌿USA: Support for legalized marijuana rises to 58 percent in Gallup Poll
Fifty-eight percent of Americans now believe that use of marijuana should be made legal, “tying the high point in Gallup’s 46-year trend,” according to a Gallup Poll released on Thursday.
The support for legalization is highest among so-called millennials, with 71 percent of those 18 to 34 saying that cannabis should be legal. Sixty-four percent of those 35 to 49 years old agree, along with 58 percent in the 50-64 age group.
At the same time, other data show increasing pot use. Surveys of nearly 80,000 adults showed 9.5 percent of adults used marijuana in 2013, up from 4.1 percent in 2000-2001. Researchers also wrote in JAMA Psychiatry that marijuana-use disorder increased. Young adults were the most at risk for marijuana disorder.
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