Record-High 50% of Americans Favor Legalizing Marijuana Use

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PRINCETON, NJ -- A record-high 50% of Americans now say the use of marijuana should be made legal, up from 46% last year. Forty-six percent say marijuana use should remain illegal.

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Support for legalizing marijuana is directly and inversely proportional to age, ranging from 62% approval among those 18 to 29 down to 31% among those 65 and older. Liberals are twice as likely as conservatives to favor legalizing marijuana. And Democrats and independents are more likely to be in favor than are Republicans. More men than women support legalizing the drug. Those in the West and Midwest are more likely to favor it than those in the South.

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http://www.gallup.com/poll/150149/Record-High-Americans-Favor-Legalizing-Marijuana.aspx
 
I bet if they educated everyone about how harmless it is that a ton more people would be in favor. There are still a lot of people out there that believe the lies the government is pushing
 
To quote Planck (out of context, but still):
truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it
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It's not a matter of education, just a waiting game.
 
Wow that quote is really so true, and it makes me sad for my own lifetime (on many topics, not just the drug legalization one), but hopeful for the progress of the human race on the whole.
 
And that motherfucking curve is just gonna go up, until it isn't necessary anymore. ;)
 
Fuck yeah, this shit is awesome.... In the future the question on whether marijuana should be legal or not will be irrelevant. I mean even if weed is never legal I won't give a fuck cause in the end I'm still going to get high.

LEGALIZE FREEDOM
 
Just gotta wait for the older folk to die off....so when they finally die; majority of all crazy Anti-Marijuana people will be gone and we can smoke a blunt in their honor ;)
 
So basically, miserable 65+ year olds want to ruin all our fun right up until the day they die?
 
A record "high"? AHAHA HA HA HA oops i pooped. I think we just lost support. Title should read "Record high for Americans who are familiar with the scientific method" also, record high numbers for people who can read books, and number of people who know how to use the internet.
 
Utahrd said:
A record "high"? AHAHA HA HA HA oops i pooped. I think we just lost support. Title should read "Record high for Americans who are familiar with the scientific method" also, record high numbers for people who can read books, and number of people who know how to use the internet.
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Don't you mean "Record-High 50% of Americans don't have control"?
 
Just watched a piece about this on the Last word with Laurence O'donnel. Holy shit he was just completely bashing the government i could just see the frustration in his eyes. All i could think was "right on brother".
 
Attack Fader said:
I bet if they educated everyone about how harmless it is that a ton more people would be in favor. There are still a lot of people out there that believe the lies the government is pushing
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Yeah for real I bet if they actually told the truth and educated these people that want weed to stay illegal would be much more inclined to change their minds once they realize what pots effects really feel like and what the marijuana plant can do for medicine. There are still people out there that think a marijuana high is the same as a cocaine high or heroin high, etc...
 
How do you intend to educate those people? They aren't on BL, they don't read "liberal" newspapers or watch pro-cannabis documentaries... The case for the harmlessness of cannabis is often overstated by advocates. It's not going to make you overdose and die; it might facilitate you becoming a bit of an underachieving loser, though.
 
^^^ Wait so Vader, you are endorsing the idea that those who use cannabis may become an ". . . underachieving loser" ???
 
Yes. I think it's pretty obvious that if you're stoned as fuck from the moment you wake up to the moment you pass out, you're not going to get as much done as you would have done otherwise. I used to smoke weed all day, every day, when I was at school, and I'm sure I would have done better had I not been baked the whole time.
 
Vader said:
Yes. I think it's pretty obvious that if you're stoned as fuck from the moment you wake up to the moment you pass out, you're not going to get as much done as you would have done otherwise. I used to smoke weed all day, every day, when I was at school, and I'm sure I would have done better had I not been baked the whole time.
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Quite fucking true. Still, no need to ban everyone, it's the users not the drug that causes the problems.
 
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