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Majority of young conservatives lean toward marijuana legalization

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 03/25/2015 - 10:44

A Pew Research Center poll finds 63 percent of millennials who identify as Republicans favor the legalization of marijuana. 

In light of the recent legalization of marijuana in Washington, D.C., members of the University are responding to a new study that shows young conservatives are favoring the drug’s legalization.

A recent poll conducted by the Pew Research Center shows 63 percent of republican millennials, or individuals born between 1981 and 1996, support the legalization of marijuana.

This figure might be considered high when compared to only 47 percent of Generation X Republicans born between 1965 and1980, as well as 38 percent of Baby Boomer republicans born between 1946 and 1964.

According to the poll, 77 percent of millennial democrats favored the drug’s legalization, creating a 14 percent gap between millennials in those specific political parties.

Political parties are much less important to millennials than they used to be, said David Redlawsk,...

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