Black Americans strongly support legalizing marijuana and providing relief to those who’ve faced past convictions over cannabis-related offenses, a new polling analysis from the Pew Research Center found.
The analysis, which is based on data from a survey that Pew conducted last year, found that nearly six-in-ten black Americans favor legalizing cannabis for both medical and recreational purposes, while an additional 28 percent said only medical cannabis should be legal.
Only 11 percent of black respondents said that marijuana should remain completely criminalized.
About six-in-ten Black adults (57%) say marijuana should be legal for medical and recreational use by adults, while 28% say marijuana should be legal for medical use only. Notably few Black adults (11%) say marijuana use should not be legal. https://t.co/O0E6zqc3DT pic.twitter.com/HUTp8NJQV1
— Pew Research Race and Ethnicity (@pewidentity) June 8, 2022
Asked whether people should be released from prison and have their records expunged for cannabis-only offenses, 74 percent of black Americans said in separate questions that both of those policies should be enacted.
While black support for marijuana reform is largely consistent with support from the general public, the race-specific analysis is especially important in context, as black Americans are significantly more likely to
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