Harris Poll: Majority of Americans Want Marijuana Legalized
Eighty-five percent of Americans believe that marijuana should be legalized for medical use, and 57 percent of respondents endorse regulating it for anyone over the age of 21, according to nationalsurvey datacompiled Harris Insight & Analytics.
Among younger respondents (those ages 18 to 44), 68 percent agree that cannabis should be legal. Most respondents (57 percent) say that legalizing the plant would help alleviate the opioid crisis.
Data evaluating prescription drug use trends among individual patients enrolled in state-licensed medical marijuana programsreportsthat chronic pain subjects frequently reduce or eliminate their use of opioids following enrollment.
Voters believe that ending Americas failed marijuana prohibition laws is a common-sense issue, not a partisan one, NORML Deputy Director Paul Armentano toldHealthDay, which commissioned the poll. Its time for their elected officials to take a similar posture, and to move expeditiously to amend federal law in a manner that comports with public and scientific ...
