Steve Gelsi covers banking and cannabis as a Senior Reporter for MarketWatch.
About 70% of Americans think marijuana use should be legal, after holding steady at 68% for three years, according to Gallup polling data released Wednesday. Since crossing the 30% mark in 2000, support for legal cannabis accelerated after 2010 to more than half of Americans in 2013. In the latest figures, 29% of Americans think marijuana should be illegal and 1% are unsure.
A July survey by Gallup showed that 17% of Americans say they personally smoke marijuana, up by 10% since 2013. Republicans first gave majority backing to cannabis legalization in 2017. Eighty-seven percent of Democrats favor legal cannabis and 52% of conservatives are in favor of it. The Gallup survey came after 57% of Ohio voters on Tuesday approved a state referendum legalizing cannabis for people over 21. Ohio is the 24th state to do so. With Ohio, more than half of the U.S.
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