A record number of Americans are under the immersion that marijuana use should be legal, taken from a new poll released Wednesday by international pollster Gallup.
And government surveys published Wednesday offered further signs that cannabis is moving into the mainstream throughout the nation, nearly three years after Colorado voters legalized recreational marijuana.
Marijuana use among U.S. adults doubled over the past decade, rising to more than 22 million mostly recreational users, the surveys show.
The results come from a comparison of health surveys from 2001-02 and 2012-13 backed by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. with close to 80,000 adults aged 18 and older participated in face-to-face interviews about many different health-related behaviors, in reference to results published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry.
In 2015, almost 60 percent of Americans say marijuana use should be legalized in the U.S. — tying the highest acceptance numbers ( from 2013) in the Gallup’s 46 years of asking Americans about cannabis. In 2014, the year between those record high marijuana polling percentages, 51 percent of Americans supported legalizing marijuana.
The automated telephone Gallup poll was conducted Oct. 7-11 with a margin of error of 4 percentage points.
And Gallup projects Americans’ support for legalization will only increase in the years to come.
“Given the patterns of support by age, that percentage should continue to grow in the future,” Jeffrey M. “Younger generations of Americans have been increasingly likely to favor the legal use of marijuana as they entered adulthood compared with older generations of Americans when they were the same age decades ago.
MAPH Enterprises, LLC | (305) 414-0128 | 1501 Venera Ave, Coral Gables, FL 33146 | new@marijuanastocks.com
