"We all want more, but Americans say they are generally, financially healthy". An additional 27 percent say it's just as risky, while 4 percent say it's more unsafe.
Marijuana advocates across the country held events to observe the annual 4/20 quasi-holiday.
But a more recent and much larger state survey found that use among teens was essentially unchanged, and Brohl said the increase in hospital visits may relate to a greater willingness to admit use. Marijuana tops the list of concerns for Americans who have never tried marijuana.
And 88 percent - about as close to a consensus as you get in polling - support using it for medicinal purposes. President Trump himself hasn't spoken extensively about weed or the legalization debate, though suggesting he favored medical marijuana use when asked about it once on the campaign trail. And women are now as much in favor of legal marijuana as men are; in previous years they were less so.
Opponents of federal marijuana rules and the plant's Schedule I listing on the Controlled Substance List could potentially see rules change-that is, if a group of lawmakers in the so-called Cannabis Caucus can convince the Senate and House to approve a package of bills introduced in March, including one that would make marijuana legal on a federal level, subject to regulation similar to USA alcohol laws.
While Connecticut does not appear to be moving forward with legal marijuana, other New England states are, including MA, where voters last year approved a ballot question legalizing the drug, with retail sales beginning next year.
Official estimate could upend Trump tax plan
Lowering the corporate tax rate is a popular idea, particularly because the United States has one of the highest in the world. Reportedly Trump wants it cut to 15 percent, which is more than the 20 percent proposed by lawmakers in his Republican party.
Most Americans - 71% - do not think the federal government should try to prohibit the sale and use of marijuana in the many states where the drug has been legalized in some form.
As debate surrounding the legalization of marijuana continues to increase in IL, legislators with the chance to bend the ear of the woman who heads up regulation of recreational marijuana in Colorado focused their questions on public safety.
Support for legalization was strongest among 18 to 34-year-olds, at 72 per cent, and weakest among those 55 and older at 55 per cent.
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 almost as many think legal marijuana decreases it. Most are male and under 65.
Although the issue of legalization continues to split along partisan lines, the poll found that 46 percent of Republicans support the move and that 49 percent oppose it. Sixty-eight percent of Democrats and 64 percent of independents support legal weed. Independents are a little more likely to have tried it than either Democrats or Republicans. For the cell sample, interviews were conducted with the person who answered the phone. The error for subgroups may be higher and is available by request.
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