Poll: The Only Drug Americans Want to Legalize Is Marijuana

Over the past few years, a growing number of Americans have voiced their support for legalizing marijuana, leading four states to legalize it for recreational and medical uses and 19 more for only medical purposes.

But does this sentiment apply to other illicit drugs? That's what Vox and Morning Consult sought to find out in a new poll of nearly 2,000 registered US voters.

The results overwhelmingly suggest that marijuana is a big outlier, and most US voters do not support decriminalizing non-marijuana drugs or legalizing them for medical or recreational purposes.

Most US voters do not want to decriminalize non-marijuana drugs

Except for marijuana, there is little support for decriminalizing drugs to remove the threat of arrest, jail time, and a criminal record for possession of small amounts of a drug.

This, to me, is the most surprising result of Vox and Morning Consult's poll. In a 2014 ...

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