Americans have substantially progressed in their views about marijuana and that’s not good news for Team Trump. You might remember that recently Jeff Sessions indicated that he fully intended to bring back the war on drugs. However, this appears to have almost no support, given that most Americans think that marijuana use should be legal and that drug addiction should be treated as a mental health problem rather than a criminal offense. In fact, not only do 61 percent of Americans support marijuana legalization, more of them (71 percent) oppose the federal government’s attempts to stop marijuana sales and its use in states that have already legalized it.
The belief that pot should be legal has reached a new high in CBS News polls. Sixty-one percent of Americans now say the it should be, a five-point increase from a year ago. This sentiment has increased each year we’ve measured it since 2013, with the turning point to majority support coming in 2014. Back in 1979, this poll found just 27 percent saying it should be legal.
Of course, since when do Trump and company actually take into account the best interests of the American people when making policy? Then there’s the fact that they don’t actually have a clear stance on marijuana to begin with. Earlier this week on Meet the Press, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said that marijuana had nothing to do with the drug war, which he quickly backtracked on Tuesday in a speech and called it a “dangerous gateway drug.” So which is it? Do they even know? Even though this administration seems making it up as it goes along, the American people seem to be very clear on which they think it is.
Sixty-five percent think marijuana is less dangerous than most other drugs. And only 23 percent think legalizing marijuana leads to an increase violent crime. [...]
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has asserted a connection between marijuana and violent crime, but few Americans see it that way: just 23 percent think legalizing pot increases violent crime, while nearly as many think legal marijuana decreases it.
from Daily Kos http://ift.tt/2oUdTSv
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