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Gallup: Support For Legalizing Marijuana At Historic High
Princeton, NJ: Fifty-eight percent of Americans believe that "the use of marijuana should be made legal," according to nationwide polling data released this week by Gallup. The percentage ties the highest level of support ever reported by Gallup, and is more than twice the level of support reported in the mid-1990s.
Gallup: Support For Legalizing Marijuana At Historic High
Younger Americans, Democrats and independents are the most likely to favor legalizing cannabis, while Republicans and Americans over the age of 65 are least likely to do so. Among those polled respondents age 18 to 34, 71 percent endorse legalization. Among respondents age 35 to 49 years of age, 64 percent support legalizing marijuana.
"Americans' support for legalizing marijuana is the highest Gallup has measured to date, at 58 percent," pollsters concluded. "Given the patterns of support by age, that percentage should continue to grow in the future. Younger generations of Americans have been increasingly likely to favor legal use of marijuana as they entered adulthood compared with older generations of Americans when they were the same age decades ago. ... Now senior citizens are alone among age groups in opposing pot legalization.
They added: "These trends suggest that state and local governments may come under increasing pressure to ease restrictions on marijuana use, if not go even further like the states of Colorado, Oregon, Washington and Alaska in making recreational marijuana use completely legal."
The 2015 Gallup poll possesses a margin of error of +/- 4 percent.
Ohio Poll: Majority Of Voters Back Marijuana Ballot Measure
Kent, Ohio: Fifty-six percent of registered Ohio voters say that they will vote 'yes' this November on Issue 3, the Marijuana Legalization Amendment, according to newly released WKYC/Kent State polling data.
Sixty-seven percent of registered Democrats and 50 percent of Independents told pollsters that they endorse the measure. Sixty-five percent of Republicans oppose it. Only ten percent of voters remain undecided on the issue. The WKYC/Kent State poll possesses a +/- 4 percent margin of error.
The measure would initially establish 10 state-licensed commercial growing sites and commercially produced cannabis would be sold at over 1,000 proposed retail dispensaries. The measure also permits adults to cultivate personal use quantities of cannabis (up to four plants yielding no more than eight ounces of usable product at any one time) at home.
State lawmakers opposed to the plan have placed a competing measure, Issue 2, on the November 3 ballot that seeks to prohibit state regulators from permitting the limited production of "any Schedule I controlled substance." If voters approved both measures, Issue 2 states that the "entire proposed constitutional [marijuana] amendment shall not take effect." According to the WKYC/Kent State poll, 54 percent of registered voters - including 57 percent of those who say that they also support Issue 3 - say that they intend to vote in favor of Issue 2. Twenty-six percent of Ohio voters are undecided on Issue 2.
If voters endorse both competing measures, it will likely be up to the courts to decide which initiative takes precedence.
Canada: Newly Elected Prime Minister Pledges To Legalize Marijuana
Ottawa, Canada: Newly elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is promising to amend Canada's marijuana laws in a manner that regulates the plant's adult use and sale. Trudeau, who was elected Tuesday on the Liberal Party ticket, says that addressing marijuana policy is among his immediate legislative priorities as Prime Minister.
The Liberal Party platform states: "Canada's current system of marijuana prohibition does not work. ... To ensure that we keep marijuana out of the hands of children, and the profits out of the hands of criminals, we will legalize, regulate, and restrict access to marijuana. We will remove marijuana consumption and incidental possession from the Criminal Code."
Liberal Party members now possess a majority of seats in Parliament.
NORML Deputy Director Paul Armentano said: "Trudeau's election affirms that speaking out in favor of common sense marijuana law reform is a political opportunity, not a political liability. These results ought to embolden campaigning politicians in this country to take a more pronounced stance in favor of legalizing and regulating cannabis."
Study: Presence Of THC Metabolites In Hair Not Necessarily Indicative Of Marijuana Ingestion
Freiburg, Germany: THC metabolites may be present in the hair of individuals who have never ingested cannabis, according to clinical trial data published online in the journal Nature, Scientific Reports.
Investigators at University of Freiburg Medical Center in Germany assessed hair samples in human subjects with varying degrees of cannabis exposure. Researchers reported THC metabolites can be transferred from cannabis users to non-users via close body contact.
Authors concluded: "Our studies show that all three cannabinoids [THC, THC-A, and THC-COOH] can be present in hair of non-consuming individuals because of transfer through cannabis consumers, via their hands, their sebum/sweat, or cannabis smoke. This is of concern [in] child-custody cases as cannabinoid findings in a child's hair may be caused by close contact to cannabis consumers rather than by inhalation of side-stream smoke."
Full text of the study, "Finding cannabinoids in hair does not prove cannabis consumption," appears online @ https://www.nature.com/articles/srep14906
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