{"id":5774,"date":"2016-03-29T09:21:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T09:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/?p=48333"},"modified":"2016-03-29T09:21:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T09:21:38","slug":"a-majority-has-spoken-ap-poll-shows-americans-overwhelmingly-support-marijuana-legalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/a-majority-has-spoken-ap-poll-shows-americans-overwhelmingly-support-marijuana-legalization\/","title":{"rendered":"A Majority Has Spoken: AP Poll Shows Americans Overwhelmingly Support Marijuana Legalization"},"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\/a-majority-has-spoken-ap-poll-shows-americans-overwhelmingly-support-marijuana-legalization\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Smoking past last year&#8217;s Gallup poll\u00a0\u2013 in which 58% of America&#8217;s law-abiding citizens gave a proverbial nod to the idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/blog\/news\/2015\/10\/gallup-poll-majority-of-americans-support-legalizing-marijuana\/\" target=\"_blank\">legalizing recreational marijuana consumption<\/a>\u00a0 \u2013 this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apnorc.org\/PDFs\/Drugs\/AP-NORC%20Drugs%20Report%20Topline.pdf#American%20Attitudes%20toward%20Substance%20Use%20in%20the%20United%20States\">new poll<\/a> conducted by the Associated Press and the University of Chicago shows an elevated 61% of those surveyed agreed, marijuana should be legalized for adults over the age of 21.<\/p>\n<p>Q1. <em><strong>Do you think the use of marijuana should be made legal, or not?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48334\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48334\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-28-at-4.28.12-PM.png?a8203f\" alt=\"Do you think the use of marijuana should be made legal, or not?\" width=\"550\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-28-at-4.28.12-PM-300x127.png 300w, http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-28-at-4.28.12-PM.png 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Do you think the use of marijuana should be made legal, or not?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>If Yes, should be legal in Q1&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Q2. <em><strong>Do you think the use of marijuana should be made legal?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48335\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-48335 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-28-at-4.28.23-PM.png?a8203f\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-03-28 at 4.28.23 PM\" width=\"550\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-28-at-4.28.23-PM-300x122.png 300w, http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-28-at-4.28.23-PM.png 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">If Yes, weed should be legal&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>While the majority of those polled agreed that marijuana should be legalized, there were a few important caveats mentioned; 43% believed there should be a limitation on the quantity available for purchase, 24% believed <a href=\"https:\/\/weedmaps.com\/doctors\/in\/united-states\/washington\/spokaneeastern-washington\" target=\"_blank\">a doctor&#8217;s recommendation should be necessary<\/a> \u2026 and\u00a033% felt there should be no restrictions attached.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smoking past last year&#8217;s Gallup poll\u00a0\u2013 in which 58% of America&#8217;s law-abiding citizens gave a proverbial nod to the idea of legalizing recreational marijuana consumption\u00a0 \u2013 this\u00a0new poll conducted by the Associated Press and the University of Chicago shows an elevated 61% of those surveyed agreed, marijuana should be legalized for adults over the age [&#8230;] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5372,5373,77,2437,9,1,3,5374],"tags":[5375,5376,2655,2443,5377],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774"}],"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=5774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}