{"id":5454,"date":"2016-01-29T23:52:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T23:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/?p=46534"},"modified":"2016-01-29T23:52:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T23:52:05","slug":"americans-dont-care-if-presidential-candidates-used-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/americans-dont-care-if-presidential-candidates-used-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans Don\u2019t Care if Presidential Candidates Used Marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/americans-dont-care-if-presidential-candidates-used-marijuana\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Marijuana use isn&#8217;t a political problem for presidential contenders, most Americans say\u00a0in\u00a0a new survey.<\/p>\n<p>Seventy-four percent of U.S. adults think\u00a0candidates&#8217; past cannabis use doesn&#8217;t matter, Pew Research Center found in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/2016\/01\/27\/faith-and-the-2016-campaign\/\">poll<\/a>\u00a0released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Six percent say past marijuana use by a candidate actually makes them more likely to earn support, while\u00a020 percent say they&#8217;re less likely to vote for presidential contenders who toked. Because the\u00a0respondents who said past use made them less likely to vote for\u00a0a candidate\u00a0outnumbered those who said it made them\u00a0more likely to support, Pew called it a &#8220;trait that is a liability&#8221; overall.<\/p>\n<p>But past marijuana use is less of a political liability than being gay, Mormon, Muslim or atheist, the survey found. And having had an extramarital affair or personal\u00a0financial troubles are also more of a problem in voters&#8217; minds than consuming cannabis is.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-46535\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/pew-marijuana.png?a8203f\" alt=\"pew-marijuana\" width=\"297\" height=\"484\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The overall lack of concern over candidates&#8217; past marijuana use is fairly consistent across party lines, with 74 percent of those who are or lean Republican saying it doesn&#8217;t matter and 78 percent of those who are or lean Democrat agreeing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46536\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/pew-marijuana-parties.png?a8203f\" alt=\"pew-marijuana-parties\" width=\"310\" height=\"381\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even among religious Americans, the vast majority say a candidate&#8217;s past cannabis use would make no difference. That&#8217;s especially\u00a0true of white Catholics, 85 percent of whom say they don&#8217;t care about possible a president&#8217;s marijuana history.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-46542\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-29-at-12.23.23-PM.png?a8203f\" alt=\"pew-marijuana-religion\" width=\"414\" height=\"432\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The number\u00a0of Americans who don&#8217;t care whether their president formerly used marijuana is growing. Pew asked the same question in 2014, finding that 70 percent said it didn&#8217;t make a difference. In a 2011 survey the number was 69 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The new poll, based on telephone interviews of a national sample of 2,009 adults conducted January 7-14, only asked about past cannabis\u00a0use and did not inquire how Americans would feel about electing a current marijuana user as president.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">The last three presidents have admitted to using marijuana, and several current candidates\u00a0for the job have acknowledged past cannabis consumption as well. To find out which 2016 contenders\u00a0are on record as former tokers, check out <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/blog\/news\/2015\/04\/where-do-presidential-candidates-stand-on-marijuana\/\">Marijuana.com&#8217;s comprehensive guide to to the candidates<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marijuana use isn&#8217;t a political problem for presidential contenders, most Americans say\u00a0in\u00a0a new survey. Seventy-four percent of U.S. adults think\u00a0candidates&#8217; past cannabis use doesn&#8217;t matter, Pew Research Center found in the\u00a0poll\u00a0released on Wednesday. Six percent say past marijuana use by a candidate actually makes them more likely to earn support, while\u00a020 percent say they&#8217;re less [&#8230;] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2417,9,1,3],"tags":[2419],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}