Other studies have show that teen pot use is down in Colorado amid legalization.
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But voters must decide this November if recreational marijuana should be legalized and regulated like alcohol and both sides of this issue are gearing up for a big battle.
Public Policy Polling surveyed 629 Colorado voters on August 31 and September 1. He said Arizona should wait until the Colorado law has been in effect for five full years – meaning two years from now – to see whether they still believe recreational use of marijuana is desirable.
Mayor John Suthers is so passionate about marijuana – he’s against Colorado’s legalization of it – that he traveled to Arizona to help out opponents of a ballot measure there that would allow possession of small amounts by adults, among other things.
They said the law would make it hard to prosecute marijuana-impaired drivers and would spur organized crime.
But Suthers said that’s because voters just don’t understand. More than 43 percent said they had driven under the influence of marijuana within the prior year – and nearly 24 percent said they had operated a motor vehicle within one hour of using marijuana in the past month.
This paper assesses recent marijuana legalizations and related policies in Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and Alaska.
MA is one of five states voting on recreational marijuana in November.
Two happy Colorado cannabis customers on January 1, 2014. A strong majority voted against the measure and for recreational marijuana, and the town remains El Paso County’s only outpost with retail pot sales.
Jason Warf is the president of the Southern Colorado Cannabis Council. Nine percent said it had no impact and six percent weren’t sure. They said it would hurt tourism, but we have more visitors spending more money than ever.
An early-2015 Quinnipiac University Poll showed that 58 percent of respondents supported Amendment 64 while 38 percent opposed it. “That’s what’s caused the dramatic increase in youth use in Colorado”.
Legalization opponent Kevin Sabet of Project Sam referenced SmithJohnson Research’s outlier poll to say “we shouldn’t be surprised that Coloradans are coming around to opposing legalization”.
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Twenty-one percent of Colorado teens in 2015 said they used marijuana over the past 30 days. It’s pretty clear that any proposal to repeal it and revert back to prohibition would go down in flames.
