Democratic voters in Massachusetts strongly oppose a measure on the November ballot to roll back the state’s marijuana legalization law.
The new survey of Democratic primary voters from the Suffolk University Political Research Center and The Boston Globe asked, “In November, voters will be asked whether they support keeping or repealing the state law that legalized recreational marijuana sales. If the election were today, would you vote to keep or repeal the law?”
An overwhelming majority of 79 percent said they would prefer to keep the state’s current cannabis laws intact, 16 percent said they want to repeal recreational sales and 4 percent were undecided.
There was supermajority support for maintaining marijuana legalization as-is among every age, racial, gender and geographic group polled.
While the poll, which was conducted from August 13-16, only included voters who are likely to vote in the Democratic primary on September 1, Democrats outnumber Republicans among registered voters in the state, so the result indicates that marijuana opponents have a lot of ground to make up if they hope to pass the prohibitionist ballot measure in November.
Last month, state officials issued a final determination that the initiative—which would repeal laws allowing the regulated commercial
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