A slim majority of Massachusetts voters say they plan to vote in favor of a psychedelics legalization initiative at the ballot next week, according to a new poll.
With just days before the election, the Emerson College Polling/WHDH survey found that 50 percent of likely voters support the measure, known as Question 4, while 44 percent oppose it and 6 percent remain undecided.
Democrats are most likely to say they back the reform proposal, at 59 percent. A plurality of independents (49 percent) and minority of Republicans (36 percent) said the same.
Question 4 would allow adults 21 and older to legally possess, grow and share certain amounts of psychedelics such as psilocybin, ibogaine and DMT.
Fifty-six percent of respondents who said they’re voting for the Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, are in favor of the psychedelics initiative, compared to 39 percent of those who intend to vote for the GOP nominee, former President Donald Trump.
Support was especially strong among those who said they’ll be casting their ballot in the U.S. Senate race for incumbent Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), with 60 percent of her backers supporting the proposal. Warren herself recently endorsed Question 4—though she stressed the
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