A majority of Americans remain in favor of legalizing marijuana, according to a new poll from Gallup. But support has seen a slight dip since last year—a trend that’s been “driven by Republicans” who are turning against the reform, the organization found.
Overall, 64 percent of Americans now back ending cannabis prohibition. That’s 4 percentage points lower than Gallup’s 2024 results.
Over the past year, Republican support for legalization fell 13 percentage points—down to 40 percent—which is “the lowest level of support for legalization among this group in a decade,” Gallup said on Wednesday.
An overwhelmingly majority of Democrats (85 percent) and independents (66 percent) continue to favor legalization “at similar rates to what Gallup has recorded in recent years,” the firm’s analysis said. What accounts for the abrupt shift among GOP respondents is unclear, but other questions in the broader survey may provide some clues.
Specifically, as the Trump administration has pushed an aggressive anti-drug campaign—which has involved extrajudicial killings of foreign nationals allegedly transporting controlled substances via boats—there’s been a major change in public perceptions of the country’s success in addressing the illicit drug crisis.
Via Gallup.
“The decline in support for legal marijuana is driven by Republicans,
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