A plurality of Texas voters want the state’s marijuana laws to be made “less strict,” according to a new poll. And among the legislative items lawmakers considered during recent special sessions, voters say a proposal to address hemp regulations was among the least important.
Amid the contentious debate in the legislature over Texas hemp policy, the University of Texas/Texas Politics Project Poll found that the biggest share of registered voters (48 percent) say the state should loosen its cannabis laws.
Another 16 percent said the laws should stay the same, while 22 percent said they should be “more strict.”
Support for lessening cannabis restrictions increased by five percentage points since the poll question was last administered in April, and support for increasing restrictions fell eight percentage points.
In this latest round, Democrats were most likely to back loosening cannabis rules, at 62 percent. That was followed by independents (61 percent) and Republicans (35 percent).
Asked to rank how important or unimportant they viewed various legislative items that were taken up by the legislature during recent special sessions, only 14 percent of respondents said it was “extremely important”—the lowest of all nine issues that also included dealing with flooding in central
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