Should marijuana/cannabis laws be more or less strict (February 2023)
category | Total |
---|---|
More strict | 22% |
Left as they are now | 15% |
Less strict | 51% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 11% |
Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 14% | 21% | 32% |
Left as they are now | 8% | 15% | 24% |
Less strict | 72% | 47% | 33% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 7% | 17% | 11% |
Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 1% | 17% | 16% |
Left as they are now | 5% | 13% | 6% |
Less strict | 90% | 62% | 71% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 5% | 8% | 7% |
Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 23% | 24% | 38% |
Left as they are now | 25% | 30% | 21% |
Less strict | 43% | 34% | 28% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 8% | 12% | 13% |
Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 8% | 24% | 32% |
Left as they are now | 6% | 13% | 24% |
Less strict | 78% | 49% | 33% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 8% | 14% | 12% |
Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 15% | 6% | 6% |
Left as they are now | 7% | 4% | 8% |
Less strict | 69% | 82% | 79% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 9% | 8% | 7% |
Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 24% | 28% | 40% |
Left as they are now | 22% | 22% | 28% |
Less strict | 44% | 35% | 23% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 11% | 15% | 9% |
Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 25% | 25% | 17% |
Left as they are now | 16% | 10% | 14% |
Less strict | 51% | 54% | 55% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 8% | 11% | 15% |
Category | Male | Female |
---|---|---|
More strict | 26% | 19% |
Left as they are now | 15% | 15% |
Less strict | 50% | 52% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 9% | 13% |
Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 29% | 18% | 22% |
Left as they are now | 13% | 17% | 16% |
Less strict | 51% | 53% | 47% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 8% | 12% | 15% |
Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
---|---|---|---|---|
More strict | 29% | 21% | 19% | 23% |
Left as they are now | 13% | 15% | 15% | 19% |
Less strict | 48% | 51% | 56% | 47% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 11% | 13% | 10% | 11% |
Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
More strict | 12% | 25% | 17% | 32% | 23% | 18% |
Left as they are now | 26% | 15% | 13% | 12% | 16% | 19% |
Less strict | 42% | 46% | 60% | 47% | 51% | 51% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 20% | 14% | 10% | 9% | 10% | 12% |
Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
---|---|---|---|---|
More strict | 34% | 19% | 10% | 9% |
Left as they are now | 20% | 16% | 14% | 3% |
Less strict | 36% | 51% | 64% | 74% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 9% | 13% | 11% | 14% |
Category | The Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is the word of God but not everything in it should be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is a book written by men and is not the word of God. | Don't know. |
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More strict | 36% | 23% | 6% | 14% |
Left as they are now | 20% | 21% | 4% | 6% |
Less strict | 33% | 48% | 81% | 52% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 11% | 9% | 10% | 27% |