How Personal Experience With Marijuana Is Driving Reform

[Crusader Rabbit]

From; Just Say Now .com

How Personal Experience With Marijuana Is Driving Reform

By: Jon Walker Monday August 5, 2013 7:14 am



One of the most important reasons support for marijuana legalization has grown dramatically over the past decade is perfectly captured in this new graph from Gallup. It shows different age groups’ personal experience with marijuana over time. From Gallup:

One of the best predictors that someone supports ending marijuana prohibition is if they have personally tried it at some point. Individuals who have tried marijuana are less likely to believe the anti-pot propaganda.
Before 1970, very few Americans had tried cannabis. After 1970 it became popular with young Americans and has remained relatively popular. Now the generation that made marijuana popular is starting to become senior citizens. The number of people over 65 who have tried marijuana jumped from 3 percent to 17 over the past 14 years, these numbers will continue to grow at a rapid rate.

 

[purple_man]

also don't forget, everyone who smokes got friends and relatives who don't, and when they realize you been smoking for years or decades and stayed a normal person, they start rethinking the instilled propaganda. also is it me, or is there a huge influx of weed smoking and related jokes in the recent movies, tv shows, ...

blessss

 

[Crusader Rabbit]

... also is it me, or is there a huge influx of weed smoking and related jokes in the recent movies, tv shows, ...

People are beginning to think it's safe to come out of the closet.

Notice that the youngest cohort in 1977 self-reported a usage at 56%, but that same cohort reduced their self-reporting as they aged into Reagan's "Just Say No" years, and worked their way into careers where they felt they had something to lose.