Support for marijuana legalization in Wisconsin has reached a new, bipartisan high, according to a poll released on Wednesday.
The survey from Marquette Law School found that a solid 69 percent of registered voters in Wisconsin believe cannabis should be legal, which marks an eight percentage point increase since the firm’s last poll on the issue that was released in March.
Eighty-one percent of Democrats, 75 percent in independents and 51 percent of Republicans said they back legalization in the latest poll.
Via MLS.
Younger people were significantly more likely to embrace the policy change, with support at 83 percent for those 18-29 and 89 percent for those 30-44, for example. But even those 60+ still voiced majority support at 53 percent.
Beyond age, every racial, regional, income and educational demographic in the survey was shown to support legalization.
The only groups where there wasn’t a majority in favor of ending cannabis prohibition were people who identified as “very conservative” (26 percent), once weekly or more than once weekly church goers (39 percent and 34 percent, respectively) and “born again” Protestant Christians (47 percent).
When Marquette first asked Wisconsin voters about legalization in 2013, overall support stood at 50 percent.
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