Cannabis Consumption, Legal Or Not In Your State: Everyone Seems To Be Consuming At Equal Rates, New Gallup Poll Finds
Approximately one in 10 American adults report frequent marijuana use regardless of whether they live in a legal or non-legal state, confirming that state legalization does not significantly change consumption rates, according to a Gallup poll released Thursday.
This data begs a couple of questions: Does cannabis prohibition and criminalization effectively reduce consumption among adults? Has the war on drugs deterred marijuana consumption?
“The narrow gap in cannabis consumption among residents of states where it remains illegal compared with those in states where it is legal suggests that its criminalization does little to curtail its use among American adults,” noted Gallup.
That said, Gallup wrote: “Dovetailing with broadening legalization, the percentage of …