Its happened. In the mid-nineties, only a quarter of the U.S. population thought that marijuana should be legal, against a huge 73 percent majority shown in the yearly Gallup poll on legalization. Fifteen years later, there’s been a sea change: 50 percent now think it should be legal, the issue’s first majority in the history of the Gallup survey, with only 46 percent against it.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=105633