Legal Pot Support Drops 7 Percentage Points

There’s now a smaller percentage of American who believe pot should be legalized than there were a year ago.

As the Washington Post reports, “National support for legalized marijuana has slipped by seven percentage points in the past year, from 51 percent in 2013 to 44 percent today, according to the Public Religion Research Institute.”

PRRI asked 4,500 Americans about the intensity of their support for or opposition to legalizing marijuana. The year-over-year drop in overall support was concentrated among those who favored marijuana legalization last year, but not strongly. Opposition increased greatest among those who strongly opposed legal marijuana.”

The Post includes this handy chart:

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