{"id":718,"date":"2012-09-18T07:26:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T07:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/?p=19976"},"modified":"2012-09-18T07:26:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T07:26:25","slug":"newest-marijuana-initiative-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/newest-marijuana-initiative-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Newest Marijuana Initiative Polls"},"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\/newest-marijuana-initiative-polls\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"273\" height=\"185\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/states-medical-marijuana.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"states medical marijuana\" title=\"states medical marijuana\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-19977\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/newest-marijuana-initiative-polls\/attachment\/states-medical-marijuana\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-19977\" title=\"states medical marijuana\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/states-medical-marijuana-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Political junkies or those working in campaigns have been spending a considerable amount of time analyzing polls recently.\u00a0 Even those who are not as enthusiastic about the election probably cannot escape the constant updates on polling.\u00a0 Yesterday<a href=\"www.marijuana.net\" target=\"_blank\"> marijuana.net<\/a> spoke about a polls showing that Colorado voters seem to be heavily leaning toward enacting a measure that would legalize, regulate, and tax marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we thought maybe we would talk about some polls on marijuana initiatives in other states.\u00a0 Colorado is not the only state with a major marijuana legislative overhaul law that will be voted on by the people in November.\u00a0 Arkansas, Montana, Massachusetts, Washington State and Oregon will leave the future of marijuana reform in the hands of voters in November.\u00a0 These polls are gauging the public\u2019s interest in bills they will be voting on.\u00a0 However, there is also pending legislation in other states to legalize medical marijuana or decriminalize.<\/p>\n<p>The news for activists has been in mostly in their favor.\u00a0 As marijuana.net mentioned yesterday, polls showed a strong majority of Colorado residents favoring the legalization of marijuana.\u00a0 Similar results were found in Washington State as 57% supported legalization with 34% opposed.\u00a0 In Massachusetts 58% of those polled signaled their support to legalize medical marijuana with only 27% opposing the measure.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Additionally, a majority of Montana voters do not support the state setting up additional limits on the state\u2019s medical marijuana program.\u00a0 Oregon voters were much more on the fence when it comes to legalizing marijuana with a slight majority disapproving of the measure (46%-43%).\u00a0 There has not been polling data on residents of Arkansas, where they will vote on bring medical marijuana to the south.<\/p>\n<p>The likelihood of at least one state passing a legalized marijuana bill seems extremely high.\u00a0 Additionally it seems at one or more states may soon be joining the growing list of 17 states (and Washington D.C.) that have medical marijuana programs.\u00a0 While many of us have grown weary from polling and statistics being directed our way, we thought many marijuana activists would be pleased to see their efforts are winning over the people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"273\" height=\"185\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/states-medical-marijuana.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"states medical marijuana\" title=\"states medical marijuana\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-19977\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/newest-marijuana-initiative-polls\/attachment\/states-medical-marijuana\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-19977\" title=\"states medical marijuana\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/states-medical-marijuana-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Political junkies or those working in campaigns have been spending a considerable amount of time analyzing polls recently.\u00a0 Even those who are not as enthusiastic about the election probably cannot escape the constant updates on polling.\u00a0 Yesterday<a href=\"www.marijuana.net\" target=\"_blank\"> marijuana.net<\/a> spoke about a polls showing that Colorado voters seem to be heavily leaning toward enacting a measure that would legalize, regulate, and tax marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we thought maybe we would talk about some polls on marijuana initiatives in other states.\u00a0 Colorado is not the only state with a major marijuana legislative overhaul law that will be voted on by the people in November.\u00a0 Arkansas, Montana, Massachusetts, Washington State and Oregon will leave the future of marijuana reform in the hands of voters in November.\u00a0 These polls are gauging the public\u2019s interest in bills they will be voting on.\u00a0 However, there is also pending legislation in other states to legalize medical marijuana or decriminalize.<\/p>\n<p>The news for activists has been in mostly in their favor.\u00a0 As marijuana.net mentioned yesterday, polls showed a strong majority of Colorado residents favoring the legalization of marijuana.\u00a0 Similar results were found in Washington State as 57% supported legalization with 34% opposed.\u00a0 In Massachusetts 58% of those polled signaled their support to legalize medical marijuana with only 27% opposing the measure.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Additionally, a majority of Montana voters do not support the state setting up additional limits on the state\u2019s medical marijuana program.\u00a0 Oregon voters were much more on the fence when it comes to legalizing marijuana with a slight majority disapproving of the measure (46%-43%).\u00a0 There has not been polling data on residents of Arkansas, where they will vote on bring medical marijuana to the south.<\/p>\n<p>The likelihood of at least one state passing a legalized marijuana bill seems extremely high.\u00a0 Additionally it seems at one or more states may soon be joining the growing list of 17 states (and Washington D.C.) that have medical marijuana programs.\u00a0 While many of us have grown weary from polling and statistics being directed our way, we thought many marijuana activists would be pleased to see their efforts are winning over the people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[222,52,166,119,528,56,9,372,51,170,529,70,1,3,467,321,61],"tags":[2800,2632,2744,2697,3102,2636,2950,2631,2748,3103,5,3041,2899,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718"}],"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=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}