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Majority of New Yorkers Support Legalizing Medical Marijuana

Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Thu, 03/25/2010 - 4:16pm
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A new Siena Research Institute poll [pdf] of 810 New York State voters found that 50 percent support legalizing the use of medical marijuana in New York, while 41 percent oppose it. (9 percent say they either don't have enough information, or they're paranoid the feds are tapping their phones.) 72 percent of those who consider themselves liberal support medical marijuana, and 62 percent of those hippies are between 18 and 34 years old. As for the opposition, pollster Steven Greenberg says, "Republicans, upstaters, older voters, and African American, Catholic and Protestant voters oppose it."

Most Kansans OK with medicinal marijuana

Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Tue, 02/09/2010 - 1:05pm
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By David Martin
A state lawmaker from Olathe recently made a feeble Doritos crack in attempt to belittle legislation that would allow the chronically ill to obtain marijuana by a prescription. Turns out, the jokeman, state Rep. Scott Schwab, is out of step with most Kansans.

Legalizing the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes has 58 percent support, according to a recent poll of 500 adults. SurveyUSA conducted the poll on behalf of Wichita TV station KWCH.

Poll: New Yorkers Favor Legalizing Medical Marijuana

Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 3:07pm
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By Roy Edroso, Village Voice
The new Quinnipiac poll doesn't have too many surprises -- voters still think the state is being run into the ground, don't want new taxes, etc. -- but it does contain this novel question: Do voters think legalizing medical marijuana -- which is before the state senate now, though it keeps getting nervously passed among committees -- "is a good idea or a bad idea"? They say it's a good idea, 71-25 percent. Even Republicans approve medweed, 55-41, though less than those stoner Democrats (78-19). "Voters High On Medical Marijuana," says Quinnipiac, depriving us of a clever headline.

The rest of it goes like this: the legislature sucks, and is prone to "business as usual," and the state's problems are "very serious," but voters still want the inept Democrats in charge and split responsibility for the verkakte budget evenly among the parties; voters prefer to cut government payroll and services to getting taxed more, but say hands off education funding.

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