57% of Americans Favor Marijuana Legalization
The Times They Are A-Changin’. According to the Pew Research Center, a decade ago 32% of adult American favored and 60% opposed legalizing marijuana. Now, the numbers have basically flipped, with 57% in favor and 37% opposed, based on a survey of 1,201 U.S. adults conducted this past August by Pew. Pew, that’s quite a change.
Here’s how support for marijuana legalization has gotten higher over time:
These data show that support for marijuana increased during the 1970′s but then crashed a bit in the 1980′s. Besides hair, another thing that grew in size during the 1980′s was the focus of the government on curbing recreational drug use under President Ronald Reagan. The First Lady, Nancy Reagan, made anti-drug campaigns the focus of her efforts, including disseminating the “Just say no” slogan, and the Reagan administration further supported these efforts with policy changes. In 1986, Reagan called for a...
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