Gov. Greg Abbott has said he supports reducing the criminal penalty for marijuana possession, but not legalizing the drug.
, said while she’s never smoked marijuana herself, she knows it has some medical benefits, and when it comes to recreational use, “prohibition doesn’t work,” she said.
“We tried to prohibit alcohol, and then you have all these people trying to create their own alcohol and people getting alcohol poisoning — I feel the same way with marijuana,” Richardson said. “I just don’t think you’re gonna be able to stop people from accessing it if they want it. I think it needs to be treated almost like alcohol.”of Republicans said they strongly oppose legalization for recreational use.
“If they legalized it, you’re gonna have a dispensary pop up on every corner in our town, and that’s not really something that I look forward to seeing every day,” said Republican Edwin Kirby, who lives in Tyler and responded to the poll last month. “With the drug problems we have now with young kids, that’s just gonna add fuel to the fire.
“I’ve got a son that was in the Marine Corps, and he uses it for medicinal purposes,” said Paula Miller, a Republican in Diboll, outside Lufkin, who responded to the poll last month. “If anything, they need to make alcohol illegal,” she said after sharing that one of her family members died in an accident caused by a drunk driver.
Of the political affiliations surveyed, independents largely split the difference between Democrats and Republicans on legalization: 43% of those surveyed said they strongly support legalization for medical use, and
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