President Joe Biden’s mass marijuana pardons are the most popular acts of presidential clemency in U.S. history—with bipartisan majorities in favor of forgiving people with prior cannabis possession offenses—according to a new poll.
The YouGov survey released on Monday asked respondents whether they agree or disagree with more than a dozen historical pardons across multiple administrations. Biden’s marijuana pardons for people who’ve committed federal possession offenses proved the most popular by a wide margin, with 69 percent backing the move and just 18 percent opposing it.
Only two other pardon events had majority support in the poll: Biden’s clemency for former service members who faced penalties for offenses related to their sexual orientation or gender identity (55 percent) and a mass pardon issued by former President Jimmy Carter for Americans who resisted the Vietnam War draft (54 percent).
By contrast, just 35 percent of respondents said they agreed with former President Gerald Ford granting a pardon to former President Richard Nixon following his resignation from office amid a cascade of political scandals. A plurality of 40 percent of respondents agreed with pardoning the noted drug warrior who signed the Controlled Substances Act into law.
Via YouGov.
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