Nationwide support for legalizing marijuana has reached its highest point ever, 60 percent.
According to Gallup, the support is the highest recorded in 47 years, when the the question was first posed in 1969.
And, the analysis added, if California votes to legalize pot, the support is likely to surge even higher, as it did for same sex marriage.
“The Golden State often sets political trends for the rest of the U.S. As more states legalize marijuana, the question of whether the drug should be legal may become when it will be legal,” said Gallup.
“The transformation in public attitudes about marijuana over the past half-century has mirrored the liberalization of public attitudes about gay rights and the same-sex-marriage movement, the latter of which the U.S. Supreme Court deemed legal last year. It is possible that it might take a Supreme Court case to settle this matter, too,” added the pollster.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
